I hear him well spoken of, by everyone, as an indefatigable worker, and as having performed the most valuable services.

Captain Keppel, on whose gunboat he served for two or three months, spoke to me of him in the highest terms; and General Hunter has done the same.
"I fancy, sir, that it will be some years before you are likely to distinguish yourself so highly.

His father was an officer, who fell in battle; and if he happened to be born in Egypt, as you sneeringly said just now, all I can say is that, in my opinion, had you been born in Egypt, you would not occupy the position which he now does." Gregory had walked away when the Major rose, and he did not return to the party.

It was the first time that he had run across a bad specimen of the British officer, and his words had stung him.

But, as he said to himself, he need not mind them, as the fellow's own comrades regarded him, as one of them said, as "an insufferable ass." Still, he could not help wishing, to himself, that the missing heir might turn up in time to disappoint him.
General Hunter started next day, at noon, with two of his brigades and the mounted troops; the other two brigades following, at nightfall.