We reckoned on his troops, but we did not reckon on him.
"Kelly tells me that you would not care to change service." "My friends are in the Swedish army, and I am well satisfied with the service.

I daresay, if Russia had been nearer England than Sweden is, and we had landed there first, we should have been as glad to enter the service of the czar as we were to join that of King Charles.

Everyone says that the czar makes strangers welcome, and that he is a liberal master to those who serve him well.

As to the quarrel between them, I am not old enough to be able to give my opinion on it, though, as far as I am concerned, it seems to me that it was not a fair thing for Russia to take advantage of Sweden's being at war with Denmark and Augustus of Saxony, to fall upon her without any cause of quarrel." "Nations move less by morality than interest," Doctor Michaeloff said calmly.

"Russia wants a way to the sea--the Turks cut her off to the south, and the Swedes from the Baltic.