CHAPTER 5.
"It is little more than two years and a half since I left, Lechmere, but it seems almost a lifetime." "It does seem a time, Major.

We must have marched thousands of miles, and I could not say how many times we have been engaged.
There has not been a week that we have not had a fight, and sometimes two or three of them." "Well, thank God, we are back again.

Still I am glad to have been through it." "So am I, sir.

It will be something to look back on, and it is curious to think that while we have been seeing and doing so much, father and my brother Bob have just been going about over the farm, and seeing to the cattle, and looking after the animals day in and day out, without ever going away save to market two or three times a month at Chippenham." "And you have quite made up your mind to stay with me, Lechmere ?" "Quite, sir.

Short of your turning me out, there is nothing that would get me away from you.