I have half a mind to take him away from you, and to appoint him Provider-in-General to our camp.

I warrant me he never learned thus to provide a table, honestly; he must have all the tricks of a poacher at his fingers' end." "I fancy, when he was young, he had to shift a good deal for himself, sir," Philip replied.
"I thought so," La Noue laughed.

"I marked him once or twice, behind your chair at Orleans; and methought, then, that he looked too grave to be honest; and there was a twinkle in his eye, that accorded badly with the gravity of his face, and his sober attire.
"Well, there can be no doubt that, in war, a man who has a spice of the rogue in him makes the best of servants; provided he is but faithful to his master, and respects his goods, if he does those of no one else.

Your rogue is necessarily a man of resources; and one of that kind will, on a campaign, make his master comfortable, where one with an over-scrupulous varlet will well-nigh starve.

I had such a man, when I was with Brissac in Northern Italy; but one day he went out, and never returned.