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Not only to enforce by command but to encourage by example / the energetic discharge of duty and the steady endurance of / the difficulties and privations inseparable from Military / Service. -- Bengal Army Regulations.
They made Bobby Wick pass an examination at Sandhurst. He was a / gentleman before he was gazetted, so, when the Empress announced that / "Gentleman-Cadet Robert Hanna Wick" was posted as Second Lieutenant to / the Tyneside Tail Twisters at Krab Bokhar, he became an officer and a / gentleman, which is an enviable thing; and there was joy in the house / of Wick, where Mamma Wick and all the little Wicks fell upon their knees / and offered incense to Bobby by virtue of his achievements.