Russia will invade the east frontier with certainly as many more, perhaps a hundred and fifty thousand.

They say these rascally Swedes, who have not a shadow of quarrel against us, intend to land fifty thousand men in Pomerania; and that Austria will put two hundred and fifty thousand in the field.

Even tempered and self relying as the king is, all this is enough to drive him to despair; and anything that will interest him for an hour, and make him forget his difficulties, is very welcome." The marshal asked many questions for, as he said, the king would like to know all the ins and outs of the matter; and he knew that Fergus would much rather that the story should be told the king by another, than that he should be called upon to do so.
"I hope the horse came back safely, Lindsay ?" Fergus asked, as they left the marshal's apartments.
"Oh, yes! He went back with the convoy of wounded, and he is now safe in Keith's stable.

The other is, of course, at the count's.

I sent your things back at the same time, and when we returned here I packed everything up and sewed them in a sack.