One or two of the ladies abode temporarily in the tents of their husbands.

The unmarried officers looked for nothing better than life in camp.

I accepted an invitation at the mess-table of the officers.

Besides this sudden influx of population, there were followers and hucksters of various hues who hoped to make their profits from the soldiery.

There was not a nook in the scraggy-looking little antique village but what was sought for with avidity and thronged with occupants.