Had you not told me one word of your critical position, I should have guessed there was something in the wind from that.

That same vestment has caused many a stout heart to tremble that never quailed before a shot or shell." "How can that be?
I should like to hear." "Why, my dear boy, that's his explanation coat, as we called it at Gibraltar.

He was never known to wear it except when asking some poor fellow's 'intentions.' He would no more think of sporting it as an every-day affair, than the chief-justice would go cook-shooting in his black cap and ermine.

Come, he is bound for your quarters, and as it will not answer our plans to let him see you now, you had better hasten down-stairs, and get round by the back way into George's Street, and you'll be at his house before he can return." Following Power's directions, I seized my foraging-cap and got clear out of the premises before the major had reached them.

It was exactly noon as I sounded my loud and now well-known summons at the major's knocker.