'Because it's my house,' replied the orderly, 'and my wife and I would have felt greatly disappointed if you had gone elsewhere.'" "And so all this splendid place belongs to an orderly ?" said Harry.
"Funny you didn't hear that story," said Dalton.

"Most of us have, but I suppose everybody took it for granted that you knew it.

As you say, that grand place belongs to one of our orderlies.

After all, we're a citizen army, just as the great Roman armies when they were at their greatest were citizen armies, too." "Ah, here comes the general now," said Harry, "and he looks embarrassed, as he always does after so much cheering.

A stranger would think from the way he acts that he's the least conspicuous of our generals, and if you read the reports of his victories you'd think that he had less than anybody else to do with them." General Jackson, followed by an orderly, cantered up.