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War Office

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War Office
n Brit (formerly)
(Military)
a.  the department of state responsible for the British Army, now part of the Ministry of Defence
b.  the premises of this department in Whitehall, London


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Whisper a word at the War Office that perhaps it would be as well--just for a week, say--to test a few of my reports, and they'd laugh at you with the air of superior beings listening to the chatter of a fool.
Bennet was restored to her usual querulous serenity; and, by the middle of June, Kitty was so much recovered as to be able to enter Meryton without tears; an event of such happy promise as to make Elizabeth hope that by the following Christmas she might be so tolerably reasonable as not to mention an officer above once a day, unless, by some cruel and malicious arrangement at the War Office, another regiment should be quartered in Meryton.
She has made me promise to take her to you for a long visit when the War Office retires me.
 
 
 
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