I shall be glad if you will dine with me, this evening." "I wish I had a few more young officers like that," he said to the adjutant general, when Terence had bowed and retired.

"He is full of energy, and ready to undertake any wild adventure, and yet he is as prudent and thoughtful as most men double his age.

I like his face.

He has a right to be proud of the position he has won, but there is not the least nonsense about him, and he evidently has no idea that he has done anything out of the ordinary course.

At first sight he looks a mere good-tempered lad, but the lower part of his face is marked by such resolution and firmness that it goes far to explain why he has succeeded." There were but four other officers dining with the commander-in-chief that evening.