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"I've forgotten the countersign,' sez 'e. / 'Oh! You 'aye, 'ave you? ' sez I. / 'But I'm the Colonel,' sez 'e. / 'Oh! You are, are you? ' sez I. 'Colonel nor no Colonel, you waits / 'ere till I'm relieved, an' the Sarjint reports on your ugly old mug. Coop! ' sez I. / An' s'help me soul, 'twas the Colonel after all! But I was a recruity then. " / The Unedited Autobiography of Private Ortheris.
IF there was one thing on which Golightly prided himself more than another, it was looking like "an Officer and a gentleman. " He said it was for the honor of the Service that he attired himself so elaborately; but those who knew him best said that it was just personal vanity. There was no harm about Golightly -- not an ounce. He recognized a horse when he saw one, and could do more than fill a cantle. He played a very fair game at billiards, and was a sound man at the whist-table. Everyone liked him; and nobody ever dreamed of seeing him handcuffed on a station platform as a deserter. But this sad thing happened.