Though clothes are not at all an impregnable armour, somehow or other you feel safer when you are dressed.

There was nothing for it but to complete my ablutions, which I did so effectually in the cold spring air that I got a chill.

That night I was racked with pains as I rode on the horse which the M.O.lent me, on our march to Bailleul.
We arrived in the quaint old town about two in the morning, and I made my way in the dark to the hotel in the Square.

I was refused admission on the reasonable plea that every bed was already occupied.

I was just turning away, wondering where I could go, for I was hardly able to stand up, when an officer came out and said I might go up to a room on the top storey and get into his bed as he would need it no more.