"Our next march is to be a thousand miles, and we're to have a battle at every milestone." "You mean that as a joke, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if it came true," said Langdon, as he closed his eyes again.
Harry went on and found the two colonels sitting in the shadow of a stone fence.

One of them had his arm in a sling, but he assured Harry the wound was slight.

They gave him a glad and paternal welcome.
"In the kind of campaign we're waging," said Colonel Leonidas Talbot, "I assume that anybody is dead until I see him alive.

Am I not right, eh, Hector ?" "Assuredly you're right, Leonidas," replied Lieutenant-Colonel Hector St.Hilaire.

"Our young men don't get frightened because they don't have time to think about it.