Marching legions meaning

Marching legions meaning ⚡With its position as one of Asia's leading bookmakers, is always a meeting place for serious bettors.⚡ The waiter bowed as he folded the coat carefully.,With regard to David Sarby, he had passed with the estate to Jen. The boy's father, a libertine, a drunkard and a confirmed gambler, had been forced, through his vices, to sell his ancestral home; and within a year of the sale he had dissipated the purchase money in debauchery. Afterward, like the sordid and pitiful coward he had always proved himself to be, he committed suicide, leaving his only son, whose mother had long since been worried into her grave, a pauper and an orphan.,At the same time she was afraid lest further trouble should occur therein, for it seemed to her that Etwald had paid this visit for the express purpose of making himself disagreeable.,"I am disgusted with her, too," said Mrs. Dallas, indorsing the major's exclamation.,"He's an awfully good sort, if he is queer and stubby," she said, pausing to hide her parcel beneath her stand until the propitious moment.，"He'll be feeding his eyes on Molly, so he'll not even know he's eating my Kensington almond pudding with Thomas's old port in it," teased Aunt Bettie with a laugh as I went across the street with them.，"What is it?" asked the mother, devoured by curiosity.，"My poor lads," said he, in a voice full of pathos. "First one and then the other--to lose them both in this awful fashion.""And when you recovered?"

Miss Green rose majestically and Griffin sprang up at the same time.,"Who was it, do you know, Griffin?" she inquired in a lowered tone.,Miss Jinny gave her husky chuckle.,"Why?" asked Jen, with military brevity.,"Y—yes," responded Patricia dubiously. "But I'll never be an artist. I sort of felt that long ago, but now I'm dead certain of it, and it seems like a sham to haul out that effort in the face of Elinor's splendid work.","Yah!" cried Battersea, derisively. "You're out of it. My mother white; but my father--" here he hesitated, and then resumed: "Yes, you're right. Dido; my father was a negro! A Seedee boy, who was a fireman on a P. and O. liner.","On the grounds of having murdered Maurice," said Jen, coldly. "Yes, you may look astonished, David, but it is the truth. Without your assistance I have discovered that Etwald is guilty. Also," added the major, in a kindly tone, "I know the reason of your silence.","That's because it is the first real home you've known," said Elinor. "One always feels that way about a home.","You must find out what has become of my dear Maurice's body," she said, quietly.,"Ah, my friend, there comes in the riddle.",But Miss Jinny was not to be diverted into talk again, and as she started out of the studio the bell came to her aid, buzzing shrilly an insistent summons to the door.,"Don't speak to me, you scoundrel, until you tell me what you have done with the body of my boy.".