Through the whole of their hard week's trial the corps had, without any exception, behaved perfectly well.

It was perhaps more difficult to honest and brave men passively to bear such a trial than any to which they could have been exposed in action.
'When the arms for the corps arrived, my father, in delivering them to the men, thanked them publicly for their conduct, assuring them that he would remember it whenever he should have opportunities of serving them, collectively or individually.

In long-after years, as occasions arose, each who continued to deserve it found in him a friend, and felt that he more than fulfilled his promise.

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