If this war goes on, God help the people, for I know not what will become of them.

This is my house, will you please to enter." Entering a wide hall, he led them into a low sitting room where his wife and three daughters were at work.

They started up with looks of alarm at the clatter of steel in the hall.
"Wife," the syndic said as he entered, "these are two gentlemen, officers of the Scottish regiment; they will stay with us during the occupation of the town.

I know that you and the girls will do your best to make their stay pleasant to them." As the officers removed their helmets the apprehensions of the women calmed down on perceiving that one of their guests was a young man of three or four and twenty, while the other was a lad, and that both had bright pleasant faces in no way answering the terrible reputation gained by the invincible soldiers of the Swedish king.
"I hope," Farquhar said pleasantly, "that you will not put yourselves out of your way for us.

We are soldiers of fortune accustomed to sleep on the ground and to live on the roughest fare, and since leaving Scotland we have scarcely slept beneath a roof.