We have seen enough of them to know that nothing, beyond kind words, are to be expected of them and, when the time for fighting comes, I would rather that we depended upon ourselves than have to act with fellows on whom there is no reliance, whatever, to be placed." "I agree with you there, heartily, O'Grady.

However, thank goodness we are going to set out at last; and I am very glad that it falls to us to act as the vanguard of the army, instead of being attached to Beresford's command and kept stationary in the passes.
"Now I must be at work.

I daresay we shall meet again, before long." Terence wrote an acknowledgment of the receipt of the general's order, and handed it to the orderly who had brought it.

A bugler at once sounded the field-officers' call.
"We are to march at once," he said, when Herrara, Bull, and Macwitty arrived.

"Let the tents be struck, and handed over to the quartermaster's department.