When did I see you last, friend?
Was it not at the onfall at Nurnberg, when I led the right and you the left wing of the heavy horse ?' 'Nay,' said Buyse.

'I have met you in the way of business since then.
Have you forgot the skirmish on the Rhine bank, when you did flash your snapphahn at me?
Sapperment! Had some rascally schelm not stabbed my horse I should have swept your head off as a boy cuts thistles mit a stick.' 'Aye, aye,' Saxon answered composedly, 'I had forgot it.

You were taken, if I remember aright, but did afterwards brain the sentry with your fetters, and swam the Rhine under the fire of a regiment.

Yet, I think that we did offer you the same terms that you were having with the others.' 'Some such base offer was indeed made me,' said the German sternly.

'To which I answered that, though I sold my sword, I did not sell my honour.
It is well that cavaliers of fortune should show that an engagement is with them--how do ye say it ?--unbreakable until the war is over.