A good deal of the ground seems to be occupied with gardens, and most of the houses are so small that they could not hold many men." "I agree with you, Mallett.

It is evident that we shall be passing through an open suburb rather than the town itself.

Those big buildings, if held in force, will give us a good deal of trouble.
They are regular fortresses." "I don't think that any of them are built of stone.

They all seem to be whitewashed." "That is so," the Major agreed, as he examined them through his field glass.

"I suppose stone is scarce in this neighbourhood, but it is probable that the walls are of brickwork, and very thick.
They will have to be regularly breached before we can carry them.
"It makes one sad to think that that flag, which has waved over the Residency for the last five months, defying all the efforts of enormously superior numbers, is to come down, and that these scoundrels will be able to exult in the possession of the place that has defied all their efforts to take it.