They said that the general had been awake more than two hours and that he was taking his breakfast, too, in the hunting lodge.

He sent for various officers from time to time, and presently Harry's turn came.
Jackson was sitting at a small table, upon which his breakfast had been laid.

But all that had been cleared away long ago.

He was reading in a small book when Harry entered, a book that the youth knew well.

It was a copy of Napoleon's Maxims, which Jackson invariably carried with him and read often.