You stood over me when I was knocked down by that charge of rebel cavalry, and got half a dozen wounds before the Hussars swept down and drove them back." "I was well paid for that, sir," the man said with a smile.
"Yes, you got the Victoria Cross, and no man ever won it more fairly.

But, after all, it was not so much by such things as these that you showed your feelings, Lechmere, as by your constant and faithful service, and by the care with which you looked after me.
Still, as I told you before, I don't like standing in your way.

In the natural course of things you would have had your father's farm, and there is now no reason why you should not go back there." "No, sir.

Since we heard that that poor girl came back home and died, there is no reason why I should not go back to the old place, but I don't like to.

Two years of such a life as we have been leading does not fit one for farm work.