Langdon and St.Clair, who had been sent along the line, returned to Colonel Talbot where Harry was still waiting.
"They're not going as fast as a railroad train," said Langdon in an aside to Harry, "but they're doing their best.

You can't put in a well more than you can take out of it, and they're marching now not on their strength, but their courage.

Still, it might be worse.

We might all be dead." "But we're not dead, by a big margin, and I think we'll make another haul at Romney." "But Old Jack won't let us stay and enjoy it.

I never saw a man so much in love with marching.