And you ?" "And I, my dear fellow?
Pshaw! what should I be but an idler in search of amusement ?" "Is it true that you have sold out of the Enniskillens ?" "Unquestionably.

Liberty is sweet; and who cares to carry a sword in time of peace?
Not I, at all events." While this brief greeting was going forward, I hung somewhat in the rear, and amused myself by comparing the speakers.

The new-comer was rather below than above the middle height, fair-haired and boyish, with a smile full of mirth and an eye full of mischief.

He looked about two years my senior.

The other was much older--two or three and thirty, at the least--dark, tall, powerful, finely built; his wavy hair clipped close about his sun-burnt neck; a thick moustache of unusual length; and a chest that looked as if it would have withstood the shock of a battering-ram.