The peasants cried out for the blood of the Scot, and he was forced to fly aboard the ships.

A sad mishap it is, for he was a skilful leader and a veteran soldier.' 'Aye, aye,' cried Saxon impatiently, 'there will be some more skilful leaders and veteran soldiers in the West presently to take his place.
But if he knew the usages of war, how came it that he should fight upon a private quarrel at such a time ?' He drew a flat brown book from his bosom, and ran his long thin finger down the table of contents.
'Subisectio nona'-- 'here is the very case set forth, "An in hello publico provocatus ad duellum privatae amicitiae causa declinare possit," in which the learned Fleming layeth it down that a man's private honour must give way to the good of the cause.

Did it not happen in my own case that, on the eve of the raising of the Anlagerung of Vienna, we stranger officers having been invited to the tent of the General, it chanced that a red-headed Irisher, one O'Daffy, an ancient in the regiment of Pappenheimer, did claim precedence of me on the ground of superiority of blood?
On this I drew my glove across his face, not, mark ye, in anger, but as showing that I differed in some degree from his opinion.

At which dissent he did at once offer to sustain his contention, but I, having read this subsection to him, did make it clear to him that we could not in honour settle the point until the Turk was chased from the city.

So after the onfall--' 'Nay, sir, I may hear the narrative some future day,' said the messenger, staggering to his feet.