And should he join any of those who trouble the country with their plots, we should feel compelled to double our guards, in order to hold ourself secure from his designs.
"Well, gentlemen, since the Duke of Berwick has appointed you his aides-de-camp, the least we can do is to see that you are properly fitted out for the expedition.

You have, of course, lost your uniforms, horses, and money in our service, and it is but just that we should see to your being refitted.

If you will wait in the anteroom, you shall each receive an order on our treasury for a hundred louis d'ors." The three officers bowed deeply in acknowledgment to the king, and, bowing also to the Duke of Berwick, returned to the anteroom, where presently one of the royal attendants brought to them the three orders on the treasury, and also begged them, in the name of the Duke of Berwick, to wait until his audience with the king should be over.
They were all highly delighted with the change in their position.
The posts of staff officers were, as the duke had said, considered to belong almost of right to members of noble families, and it was seldom that officers of the line could aspire to them.
"Did I not tell you, Kennedy, that your luck would bring good fortune to us all! And, by the powers, it has done so! Faith, if anyone had said a month ago that I should by now be on the Duke of Berwick's staff, I should have laughed in his face, if indeed I had not quarrelled with him for mocking at me.

And now here we are, with money to buy horses and outfit, and with no more drilling recruits and attending parades." "But not an end to work, O'Sullivan," Desmond Kennedy said.

"You won't find much idle time, when you are serving with the duke." "No.