"I know we'll find a warm and comfortable cove higher up.

We'll sleep there, and tomorrow we'll start toward Lee.

When we join him we'll whip Grant, come back here and rout Sheridan and then go on and take Washington." "Where I mean yet, sir, to sleep in the White House with my boots on," said the irrepressible Happy.
"You are a youth frivolous of speech, Thomas Langdon," said Colonel Leonidas Talbot gravely, "but I have always known that beneath this superficiality of manner was a brave and honest heart.

I'm glad to see that your courage is so high." "Thank you, sir," said Happy sincerely.
Half way up the mountain they found the dip they wished, sheltered by cedars and pines.

Here they rested and ate, and from their covert saw many lights burning in the valley.