midday
In print they would look wicked , so they must be fancied by such as would have the complete picture of the elderly soldier with the thick neck and the scratch wig . The Sergeant More had gently withdrawn himself and shut the door behind him the more conveniently to hear what reception the messenger 's tidings would meet with from the Paymaster . And the boy felt himself cut off most helplessly from escape out of that fearful new surrounding . It haunted him for many a day , the strong smell of the spirits and the sharp odour of the slices floating in the glasses , for our pensioners were extravagant enough to flavour even the cold midday drams of the Abercrombie with the lemon 's juice . Gilian shifted from leg to leg and turned his bonnet continuously , and through his mind there darted many thoughts about this curious place and company that he had happened upon . As they looked at him he felt the darting tremor of the fawn in the thicket , but alas he was trapped ! How old they were !