I've just had news that I am to join the 71st as senior major." I shook hands with our good neighbour on this, for I knew how it had lain upon his mind that he should be a cripple, with no part to play in the world.
"I am to join my regiment as soon as I can; and we shall be over yonder in a month, and in Paris, maybe, before another one is over." "By the Lord, then, I'm with you, Major!" cried Jim Horscroft.

"I'm not too proud to carry a musket, if you will put me in front of this Frenchman." "My lad, I'd be proud to have you serve under me," said the Major.

"And as to de Lissac, where the Emperor is he will be." "You know the man," said I.

"What can you tell us of him ?" "There is no better officer in the French army, and that is a big word to say.

They say that he would have been a marshal, but he preferred to stay at the Emperor's elbow.