When this sum is exhausted, Colonel O'Connor is authorized to issue orders for supplies payable by the paymaster to the forces, exercising the strictest economy, and sending notification to the Paymaster General of the issue of such orders.
"This despatch is confidential, and the direction of the route is, on no account, to be divulged." "You hear that, O'Grady; and you too, Dicky.

I ought not to have read the despatch out loud.

However, I know you will keep the matter secret." "You may trust us for that, Terence, for it is a secret worth knowing.

It is evident that Sir Arthur is going to join Cuesta, and make a dash on Madrid.

Well, he has been long enough in making up his mind; but it is a satisfaction that we are likely to have hot work, at last, though I wish we could have done it without those Spaniards.