If I could put in a book what all you men have seen and taken part in! Mr.Breitmann would be almost handsome but for those scars." He kicked the turf at the foot of the wall.

"In Germany they are considered beauty-spots." "I am not in sympathy with that custom." "Still, it requires courage of a kind." "The noblest wounds are those that are carried unseen.

Student scars are merely patches of vanity." "He has others besides those.

He was nearly killed in the Soudan." Fitzgerald was compelled to offer some defense for the absent.

That Breitmann had lied to him, that his appearance here had been in the regular order of things, did not take away the fact that the Bavarian was a man and a brave one.