I assure you I do.

No words! I insist upon it.

I have heard you say you are fond of good ale, and I intend to fetch you a pint of such ale as I am sure you never drank in your life." Thereupon he hurried out of the room, and through the shop into the street.
"Well," said I, when I was by myself, "if this news does not regularly surprise me! I can easily conceive that the Russians would be beaten in a pitched battle by the English and French--but that they should have been so quickly followed up by the allies, as not to be able to shut their gates and man their walls, is to me inconceivable.

Why, the Russians retreat like the wind, and have a thousand ruses at command, in order to retard an enemy.

So at least I thought, but it is plain that I know nothing about them, nor indeed much of my own countrymen; I should never have thought that English soldiers could have marched fast enough to overtake Russians, more especially with such a being to command them, as -- -, whom I, and indeed almost every one else have always considered a dead weight on the English service.