So in all things he acquitted himself as a model officer, and excited the admiration and respect of Serjeant Major MacArthur, who began fishing at Bowie to discover the cause of this strange metamorphosis in the rackety little Irishman.
"Your master seems to be qualifying himself for the adjutant's post, Mr.Bowie.

I'm jalousing he's fired with martial ardour since the war broke out." To which Bowie, being a brother Scot, answered Scottice, by a crafty paralogism.
"I've always held it as my opeeeenion, that his lordship is a youth of very good parts, if he was only compelled to employ them.".