He was such a stranger to keen emotion, that he fled from before it with a sense of dread.
The wife came back to her husband's bedside.

He looked into her face and said, faintly: "The lad hath yet a warm heart." "I have always felt that," she answered quickly.

"But oh, my husband, why send him forth to the perils of war ?" "In the hope that the stern discipline of a soldier's life may fit him for the duties which will be his at home.

The lad needs above all things to learn to obey.

Till he has mastered the lesson of submission, he can never be fit to hold the reins of government.
That lesson he will learn most quickly in the life of the camp.
There he will be no great man, but an overgrown boy to be taught and drilled.