You can only have received the order yesterday morning, and I scarcely expected that you could be here till this evening." "My men are excellent marchers, sir.

They did the forty miles in fourteen hours, and might have done it an hour quicker, had they been pressed.

Not a man fell out." "Your duty will now be to cover our left flank.

I don't know whether you are aware that Wilson has moved forward, and will take post on the slopes near the Escurial.

He has been directed to spread his force as much as possible, so as to give an appearance of greater strength than he has." "I knew that he had left his former position," Terence said.