I promise you, we made a night of it.

Some of the company supported each other, with the assistance of boots, to their respective bedchambers, while the rest slept on the field of glory where we had left them; and at the breakfast table the next morning there was an extraordinary assemblage of red eyes and shaking fists.

I observed patriotism to burn much lower by daylight.

Let no one blame me for insensibility to the reverses of France! God knows how my heart raged.
How I longed to fall on that herd of swine and knock their heads together in the moment of their revelry! But you are to consider my own situation and its necessities; also a certain lightheartedness, eminently Gallic, which forms a leading trait in my character, and leads me to throw myself into new circumstances with the spirit of a schoolboy.

It is possible that I sometimes allowed this impish humour to carry me further than good taste approves: and I was certainly punished for it once.
This was in the episcopal city of Durham.