I have fought with him, been beaten, and run away.

_Veni_, _victus sum_, _evasi_.' 'What!' he cried.

'You were at Barossa ?' 'There and back, which many could not say,' said I.

'It was a pretty affair and a hot one, and the Spaniards behaved abominably, as they usually did in a pitched field; the Marshal Duke of Belluno made a fool of himself, and not for the first time; and your friend Sir Thomas had the best of it, so far as there was any best.

He is a brave and ready officer.' 'Now, then, you will understand!' said the boy.