There was Cellini--" "Benvenuto Cellini said he made a good soldier; he said it himself, but his reputation for veracity in other matters was doubtful, to say the least.

If he did not shoot the Connetable de Bourbon, it is very certain that some one else did.

Besides, a soldier in our times should be a very different kind of man from the self-armed citizen of the time of Clement the Ninth and the aforesaid Connetable.

You will have to wear a uniform and sleep on boards in a guard-house; you will have to be up early to drill, and up late mounting guard, in wind and rain and cold.

It is hard work; I do not believe you have the constitution for it.