If the king would take my advice I will guarantee that he shall be crowned in Madrid in two months; but those pig headed Germans who surround him set him against every proposition I make.

You had better start tonight as soon as it gets dark, and take a mounted guide with you who knows the country thoroughly.
"It will be a change for you, from the pleasures of Valencia to a guerrilla warfare in the mountains in this inclement season, Stilwell," Graham said as they left the general.

"I don't think I should care about your mission.

I own I have enjoyed myself in Valencia, and I have lost my heart a dozen times since we arrived." "I have not lost mine at all," Jack said laughing, "and I am sick of all these balls and festivities.

I was not brought up to it, you know, and rough as the work may be I shall prefer it to a long stay here." "Yes," Graham agreed, "I should not care for a long stay, but you may be quite certain the earl will not remain inactive here many weeks.