On my soul, I believe I egged Netty on! I was in a mollified way with that wine; all of a sudden the woman joins their hands! And I--a man of spirit will despise me!--what I thought of was, 'now my secret's safe!' You've sobered me, young sir.

I see myself, if that's being sober.

I don't ask your opinion of me; I am a deserter, false to my colours, a breaker of his oath.

Only mark this: I was married, and a common trooper, married to a handsome young woman, true as steel; but she was handsome, and we were starvation poor, and she had to endure persecution from an officer day by day.

Bear that situation in your mind....
Providence dropped me a hundred pounds out of the sky.