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Nothing can exceed [the soldiers'] good humor. It was but the day before my arrival that one of them had been most grossly insulted...The bar-maid had positively refused to draw him any more liquor; in return for which he had (merely in playfulness) drawn his bayonet, and wounded the girl in the shoulder. And yet this fine fellow was the first to go down next morning, and express his readiness to overlook the matter.

The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens