When we have thrashed them, I expect we shall go on straight to Vienna." Fergus laughed.
"It all sounds easy enough, Lindsay.

I only hope that it will come off just as you prophesy." "That is one advantage of fighting in a foreign service, Fergus.
One fights just as stoutly for victory as if one were fighting for home, but if one is beaten it does not affect one so much.

It is sad to see the country overrun, and pillaged; but the houses are not the houses of our own people, the people massacred are not one's own relations and friends.

One's military vanity may be hurt by defeat; otherwise, one can bear it philosophically." "I never looked at it in that light before, Lindsay, but no doubt there is a great deal in what you say.

If my father had fallen on a German battlefield, instead of at Culloden, our estates would not have been confiscated, our glens harried, and our clansmen hunted down and massacred.