Here we are in October, and we are very much as we were when we began in March." "Yes, except that all our enemies are drawing closer to us." "They are closer, certainly, but none of them would seem to know what he wants to do; and as for fighting, it is of all things that which they most avoid.

We have been trying, for the last two months, for a fight with the Austrians, and cannot get one.

Now we are off to Erfurt, and I will wager a month's pay that the French will retire, as soon as we approach; and we shall have all this long tramp for nothing, and will have to hurry back again, as fast as we came." "It is unfortunate that we had to come, Lindsay.

Things always seem to go badly, when the king himself is not present.

The princes make blunder after blunder, and I have no faith in Bevern." "No," Lindsay agreed, "but he has Winterfeld with him." "Yes, he is a splendid fellow," Drummond said; "but everyone knows that he and Bevern do not get on well together, and that the duke would very much rather that Winterfeld was not with him; and with two men like that, the one slow and cautious, the other quick and daring, there are sure to be disagreements.