Outside the world of the company there appeared, from time to time, the colonel, a heavy man with snarling teeth, who circumnavigated the battalion drill-field upon a handsome black horse. He was a West Pointer, and, mimetically, a gentleman.

在公司的世界之外，不时出现上校，他是一个长着咆哮牙齿的大个子，他骑着一匹漂亮的黑马绕着营操练场转了一圈。他是一名西点军校教鞭，并且模仿地是一位绅士。