The Magus
“I had no aptitude with the rifle. I could not even bayonet an effigy of Kaiser Bill convincingly. But I was considered “sharp” and they also discovered that I could run quite fast. So I was selected as company runner, which meant that I was also a kind of servant, I forget the word‘Batman.’‘That is it. My training company commander was a Regular Army officer of thirty or so. His name was Captain Montague. He had broken his leg some time before and so had been unfit for active service till then. A kind of phosphorescent pale elegance about his face. A delicate, gallant moustache. He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.‘Before our training was finished, he received an urgent posting to France. That same day he told me, as if he were giving me a magnificent present, that he thought he could pull strings and have me posted with him. Only a man as blank as he would have failed to see the hollowness of my enthusiasm. But unfortunately he had g...rown fond of me.‘He had a brain capable of only one idea at a time.MoreLess
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