"But what am I to do with you now ?" He shrugged, and strode towards the window.

"You had better go home, O'Moy.
Your health has suffered out here, and you are not equal to the heat of summer that is now increasing.

That is the reason of this resignation.
You understand ?" "I shall be shamed for ever," said O'Moy.

"To go home when the army is about to take the field!" But Wellington did not hear him, or did not seem to hear him.

He had reached the window and his eye was caught by something that he saw in the courtyard.
"What the devil's this now ?" he rapped out.