Hang flan! Battle is a game of give and take, and if our men get elanned, we shall see them refusing to come up to time.
This new crossing and medalling is the devil's own notion for upsetting a solid British line, and tempting fellows to get invalided that they may blaze it before the shopkeepers and their wives in the city.

Give us an army!--none of your caperers.

Here are lots of circusy heroes coming home to rest after their fatigues.

One was spouting at a public dinner yesterday night.

He went into it upright, and he ran out of it upright--at the head of his men!--and here he is feasted by the citizens and making a speech upright, and my boy fronting the enemy!' Everard's involuntary break-down from his veteran's roughness to a touch of feeling thrilled Nevil, who began to perceive what his uncle was driving at when he rebuked the coxcombry of the field, and spoke of the description of compliment your hero was paying Englishmen in affecting to give them examples of bravery and preternatural coolness.