That is what Father Fritz of old sought to make us remember.

Perhaps it comes the easier to me in that I have French blood in my veins, albeit I regard myself now as an English subject.

I have cast in my lot with the English." Humphrey and Julian drew together, much as did Charles and Fritz.
Julian was a year or two older than Humphrey, and Charles was several years older than Fritz; but all had led a free open-air life, and had tastes and feelings in common.

They understood woodcraft and hunting; they were hardy, self reliant, courageous.
It was of such men as these that the best soldiers were made in the days that were at hand; although the military leaders, especially if they came from the Old World with its code of civilized warfare, were slow to recognize it.
A heavy storm of wind and rain--the precursor of the coming winter--raged round the little settlement for several days, during which the party sat round their fire, talking of the past and the future, and learning to know each other more and more intimately.
Charles recovered rapidly from the loss of blood and the fever weakness.

His constitution triumphed easily over his recent illness, and he was only longing to be on the road, that he might the sooner stand face to face with the foe.
And now the storm was abating.