"I have been brought up thinking so; only, of course, there are exceptions." "No doubt, and I hope I am already counted one." "You know you are.

My father trusted you, and so do I." "I have wondered some times," he said musingly, watching her face barely visible in the dawn, "whether those of your class actually considered us as being really human, as anything more valuable than mere food for powder.

I came into the regular army at the close of the war from the volunteer service.

I was accustomed to discipline and all that, and knew my place.

But I never suspected then that a private soldier was considered a dog.