She declares that she is proud that I am fighting for a Protestant prince, so hemmed in by his enemies; and that the thoughts and hopes of all England are with him, and the bells ring as loudly at our victories, through England and Scotland, as they do at Berlin." "If we of Saxony had understood the matter sooner," the count said, "we should be surely fighting now on your side; and indeed, had not Frederick compelled his Saxon prisoners to serve with him, had he sent them all to their homes, there would have been no animosity and, as Protestants, the people would soon have come to see that your cause was their own.

Most of them do see it, now; for whenever the enemy have entered Saxony, they have plundered and ill treated the people, especially the Protestants.
"Are your horses still alive ?" "Yes, count, and well, save that one was wounded at Zorndorf; but for that he cannot blame me, for it was his own doing.

When Seidlitz charged into the midst of the Russians, he passed close to us; and Turk, maddened by excitement, seized the bit in his teeth and joined him in the melee.

I got three wounds and he had two, but happily he has been cured as rapidly as I have, though with no advantage to the appearance of either of us." "Will the scars on your face always show as they do now ?" Thirza asked.
"I am sure I hope not," he said.

"At present they are barely healed; but in time, no doubt, the redness will fade out, and they will not show greatly, though I daresay the scars will be always visible." "I should be proud of them, Major Drummond," said Thirza, "considering that you got them in so great a battle, and one in which you rendered such service to the king." "You see, I shall not be always able to explain when and how I got them," Fergus laughed.