However, I know well that you are not serving for the sake of pay, but to defend your country from invasion by the French; and that whether you get your pay day by day, or receive it in a lump sum later on, will make no difference to you; and indeed, in some respects, you will be better off for the delay for, getting it daily, it is spent as soon as obtained; whereas, if it comes in a lump sum, it will be useful to you when you return to your homes, after your work is done.

I am confident that, in this regiment at least, which has borne itself so well from the day that it was raised, there will be neither grumbling nor discontent; but that you will suffer any hardship or privation that may come in your way as trifling incidents in the great work that you have undertaken: to defend, at the cost of your lives if need be, your country from the invader.
The regiment is dismissed drill for the day." Loud cheers at once broke from the men and, falling out, they proceeded to their tents.
"Well, Terence, there is no doubt about the enthusiasm of your fellows," Ryan remarked.

"As you said, it was hardly military, but it was better.

It was real affection, and I am sure the men would follow you anywhere." Ryan shook hands with Herrara, Bull, and Macwitty; all of whom he knew well, from his frequent visits to Terence in the spring.
"I am very glad that you have come to us, Captain Ryan," Bull said.
"A regiment don't seem like a regiment without an adjutant, and it will take a lot of work off the colonel's hands.

I wish there could have been one for each battalion." "How has the regiment been going on, Bull ?" "Nothing much to grumble about, sir; but I must say that it has been more slack than it was.