Beware, my boy! they are far the most dangerous, innocent though they may look." A laugh ran round the circle.
"Forewarned forearmed, colonel," Malcolm said sturdily, "I will be on my guard against every female creature, young or old, in future.

But I don't think that in this affair the woman has had much to boast about--she and her friends had best have left me alone." "That is so, Malcolm," the colonel said warmly.

"You have borne yourself well and bravely, and you have got an old head on those young shoulders of yours.

You are as full of plans and stratagems as if you had been a campaigner for the last half century; and no man, even in the Green Brigade, no, not Hepburn himself, could have held that church tower more ably than you did.

It will be a good tale to tell the king as we ride on the march tomorrow, for he loves a gallant deed, and the more so when there is prudence and good strategy as well as bravery.