...have you — and if I had quarrelled with King Lud, and he had come to hear the garbled story — oh ! Iris, Iris, I should have been lost. My dear, my dear,...At your own expense ! Oh ! I must do something for you — not that I can ever repay you, but to prevent your being a scapegoat for me. If not, I shall...

...getting on " I've been used to, and it's a long drop from the officers' mess to the ranks—I have to thank you, and I do thank you with all my heart, for putting me on to office-work and saving me a lot of rough work that I am no good at. Yet at times...