He has more than once asked if you have been getting into any new adventures, and seemed almost surprised when I told him that you were doing your duty with your company.

He evidently regards it as your special mission to get into harebrained scrapes.

He regards you, in fact, as a pedagogue might view the pickle of the school." There was a general laugh at Malcolm's expense.
"I don't know how it is I am always getting into scrapes," the lad said half ruefully when the laugh subsided.

"I am sure I don't want to get into them, colonel, and really I have never gone out of my way to do so, unless you call my march to help the Count of Mansfeld going out of my way.

All the other things have come to me without any fault of my own." "Quite so, Graheme," the colonel said smiling; "that's always the excuse of the boy who gets into scrapes.