He adored the Major with a canine devotion, and by an instinct almost canine he found his way up to the earthwork and chose a position which commanded the farthest prospect in the direction of Looe.

From where he sat the broad hedge dipped to a narrow valley, climbed the steep slope opposite, and vanished, to reappear upon a second and farther ridge two miles away.

As yet he could discern no sign of the returning heroes; but his ear caught the throb of a drum beaten afar to the eastward.
Of the Major's two body-servants it might be said that the one spoke seldom and the other never; and again that Cai, who spoke seldom, was taciturn, while Scipio, who spoke never, was almost affable.
In truth, the negro's was the habitual silence of one who, loving his fellows, spends all his unoccupied time in an inward brooding, a continual haze of day-dreams.
Scipio's day-dreams were of a piece with his loyalty, a reflection in some sort of his master's glory.

He could never--he with his black skin--be such a man; but he passionately desired to be honoured, respected, though but posthumously.

And the emblazoned board in the church, appealing as it did to his negro sense of colour, had suggested a way.