Henceforth we hear no more of factors and writers strutting about in uniform, calling themselves colonels and captains for a few weeks, and then returning to their ledgers.

We have done with the Midfords and the Browns.

Out of the thirteen years he had served the Company, Clive had been a soldier for eleven.

He had definitely abandoned his civil position, and had embraced a military career, and his merits had been recognized by the grant of a Lieutenant-Colonel's commission from the King.

The subordinate military officers also had improved.