I will go across with you myself to the colonel's lodging." "But please, sergeant, do not say a word about my folly; only say that the general, coming across a party of us playing at war, questioned me, and finding that I was the son of a Scottish officer who had been killed at La Rochelle, and that I had worked hard at getting up the history of the wars, and longed much to go into the army, had promised to come round the next day, and said that he might be able to aid me." "I understand, lad.

Yes, it is better that your foolishness should not be known." The colonel was greatly pleased when he heard of what had happened.
"I had intended myself to have asked for a commission for you when you were a couple of years older," he said to Hector, "but I was by no means sure of getting it, for the cardinal is not partial to the regiment.
Turenne, however, stands high in his favour--in spite of the fact that his brother, the Duc de Bouillon, has left Richelieu's party, and is regarded by him as an enemy--so we may be sure that your commission will be at once signed.

You must sup with me and the officers of the regiment tonight.

There is not one who will not rejoice that your father's son has met with such good fortune, for assuredly you could not have entered the army under better auspices.
"It is just like Turenne to have thus come forward to assist the son of a brave soldier killed in action.

As a rule, I am sorry to say that the officers of our army concern themselves but little with the affairs of the soldiers under their command.