He stopped and began to talk with an orderly officer of dragoons, who waited outside the inn, and it was then that I learned the advantage of the English which had been taught me.

I could hear and understand all that was said.
"Where is the meet ?" said the officer, and I thought that he was hungering for his bifstek.

But the other answered him that it was near Altara, so I saw that it was a place of which he spoke.
"You are late, Sir George," said the orderly.
"Yes, I had a court-martial.

Has Sir Stapleton Cotton gone ?" At this moment a window opened, and a handsome young man in a very splendid uniform looked out of it.
"Halloa, Murray!" said he.

"These cursed papers keep me, but I will be at your heels." "Very good, Cotton.