Young sir, would you care to look through the glasses ?" "I believe not, Colonel.

I will trust to the naked eye and your report." It was an odd feeling that made Dick decline the glasses.

If he looked he must tell to the others what he saw, and he wished to show neither exultation nor depression.

The colonel, the duty of courtesy discharged, resumed his own position of witness and herald.
"The columns of infantry are getting up again," he said.

"I see a man in what I take to be a general's uniform riding along their front.