"Are you positive it was five ?" "Whatever it was," said Carstairs, "the Frenchman was slandered, and by our own great bard, too.

But come and take something with us, if Lord James, our immediate chief, is willing." "He's willing, and he'll go with you," said Lord James Ivor.

"I need a bite myself and in war like this a man can't afford to neglect food and drink, when the chance is offered." "The habits of you Europeans are strong," said John, whose spirits were still exuberant.

"If you didn't have to stop now and then to work or to fight you'd eat all the time.

One meal would merge into another, making a beautiful, savory chain linked together.