Whom have you appointed in their places ?" "Gomes and Mendoza, the two sergeant majors.

They are both men of good family, and thoroughly know their duty.

Of course I filled their places, for the time, with two of the colour sergeants." "I suppose you have ridden from headquarters, Terence," Ryan put in, "and must be as hungry as a hunter.

We were just going to sit down to a couple of chickens and a ham, so come along." While they were taking their meal, Terence gave them an account of the manner in which he had escaped from Salamanca.
"So you were in our old quarters, Terence! Well, you certainly have a marvellous knack of getting out of scrapes.

When we saw your horse carrying you into the middle of the French cavalry, I thought for a moment that the Minho regiment had lost its colonel; but it was not for long, and soon I was sure that, somehow or other, you would give them the slip again.