We must manage this matter warily as well as boldly.

Evandale, let the officers come to this knoll." He moved to a small moss-grown cairn, probably the resting-place of some Celtic chief of other times, and the call of "Officers to the front," soon brought them around their commander.
"I do not call you around me, gentlemen," said Claverhouse, "in the formal capacity of a council of war, for I will never turn over on others the responsibility which my rank imposes on myself.

I only want the benefit of your opinions, reserving to myself, as most men do when they ask advice, the liberty of following my own .-- What say you, Cornet Grahame?
Shall we attack these fellows who are bellowing younder?
You are youngest and hottest, and therefore will speak first whether I will or no." "Then," said Cornet Grahame, "while I have the honour to carry the standard of the Life-Guards, it shall never, with my will, retreat before rebels.

I say, charge, in God's name and the King's!" "And what say you, Allan ?" continued Claverhouse, "for Evandale is so modest, we shall never get him to speak till you have said what you have to say." "These fellows," said Major Allan, an old cavalier officer of experience, "are three or four to one--I should not mind that much upon a fair field, but they are posted in a very formidable strength, and show no inclination to quit it.

I therefore think, with deference to Cornet Grahame's opinion, that we should draw back to Tillietudlem, occupy the pass between the hills and the open country, and send for reinforcements to my Lord Ross, who is lying at Glasgow with a regiment of infantry.