It was a splendid thing to do, on your part.

Of course, there were a number of us watching from the earthworks, and I can assure you that there was a general inclination to cheer as you cut your way through our fellows.

I am sure that if I had known that it was a countryman I should have done it, though the action was at the expense of my own regiment.
"Our squadron suffered heavily as they rode back again, for that battery from the Homolka turned its attention to them, as soon as you had gone through.

They had an officer and nearly thirty men killed and wounded before they got back into shelter.
"How long have you been out here ?" "Only about two months." "Really! You are lucky in getting onto Keith's staff." "He is a cousin of my mother's," Fergus said.
"And he made you lieutenant, and aide-de-camp, at once." "No.

I was first a cornet, but I was promoted at Dresden.