It may be that you and I may find work for us to do.

When all Europe is at war, country with country, and kingdom with kingdom, there is work and to spare for trusty messengers, stout of heart and strong of arm.
Who knows but that such luck as that may come in our way ?" Tom listened agape, feeling as though his horizon were growing wider every hour.

He had been scarce more than a week in town, and, behold, all life seemed changed about him.

Already he had been plunged into an adventure which would probably end in the spilling of blood; and now the prospect was opening out before him of travel and adventure of a kind of which he had never dreamed.

It seemed impossible that he could be the same raw rustic youth who, a few short months ago, was accounted the greatest roisterer of his own county.