He had been ailing for some months, and had twice been obliged to leave his command and rest.

It would, in any case, probably have been his last campaign; and after such a wonderfully adventurous life as he had led, he would have felt being laid upon the shelf sorely." "His elder brother--Earl Marischal in Scotland, is he not ?--who has been governor for some years at Neufchatel, is with the king at Breslau, at present.

They say the king was greatly affected at the loss of the marshal who, since Schwerin's death, has been his most trusted general." "I have never seen the marshal's brother," Fergus said, "though I know that they were greatly attached to each other.

I hope that he will be at Breslau when I get there.

I shall go and report myself to the king, after I have had a few days' rest here.