I hope he was not unwilling to come to me.

It is a great fall from being a colonel's servant to become a cornet's." "I don't suppose he will mind that; and at any rate, while he is here the berth will be such an easy one that I have no doubt he will be well content with it, and I daresay that he and Donald will get on well together.
"Donald is a Cuirassier.

After Keith appointed me as one of his aides, he got me transferred to the Cuirassiers, who are stationed at Potsdam.

That was how I came to get hold of Donald as a servant." A few minutes after they had done dinner, there was a knock at the door.

The orderly entered and saluted.
"You will find my man in there," Lindsay said.