It sounded to him a trifle parsonical.

But his heart was won by Nevil's determination to wear out the campaign rather than be invalided or entrusted with a holiday duty.
'I see with shame (admiration of them) old infantry captains and colonels of no position beyond their rank in the army, sticking to their post,' said Nevil, 'and a lord and a lord and a lord slipping off as though the stuff of the man in him had melted.

I shall go through with it.' Everard approved him.

Colonel Halkett wrote that the youth was a skeleton.

Still Everard encouraged him to persevere, and said of him: 'I like him for holding to his work after the strain's over.