Let me remain at home till there be real warfare to accomplish, and then let me come out again.

This task is odious and sickening to me.

Were it not that another might show more harshness and barbarity over it, I would e'en decline the mission." Humphrey had already left Louisbourg for Philadelphia and the western frontier; but Julian had elected to remain with Wolfe, who had come to depend upon him in no small measure.

There was something in the temperaments of the two men which made them congenial one to the other.

Wolfe's restless irritability was soothed by Julian's quiet calmness, and there was in both men a strain of ardent patriotism and self devotion which gave them sympathies in common.
Together they set sail for England when the soldier's work was done, and after a fairly prosperous voyage they landed in that country, and immediately started for Bath, where Wolfe hoped to find relief from his rheumatic troubles, and gain the strength which he had lost during this hard campaign.
"I think my mother will be awaiting me there this time," he said, with a light in his eyes.