You shall give me the advantage of your experience and wide knowledge, and we will dispute every pass, cut off their convoys, and harass them.

I warrant that they will have to move as a body, for it will go hard with any party who may be detached from the rest." "I fear, count, you must not rely in any way upon my knowledge," Jack said.

"I am a very young officer, though I have had the good fortune to be promoted to the rank of captain." "Age goes for nothing in this warfare," the count said.

"The man of seventy and the boy of fifteen who can aim straight from behind a rock are equally welcome.

It is not a deep knowledge of military science that will be of any use to us here.