If we win this campaign I will certainly ask for you as adjutant.

I shall be awfully glad to have you with me, and I really do want an adjutant for each battalion.
"And you, O'Grady ?" "Well, I can't report favourably of meself at all, at all.

I tried hard for a week, and it is the fault of me tongue, and not of meself.

I can't get it to twist itself to the outlandish words.

I am willing enough, but me tongue isn't; and I am afraid that, were it a necessity that every officer in your corps should speak the bastely language, I should have to stay at home." "I am afraid that it is quite necessary, O'Grady," Terence laughed.
"An adjutant who could not make himself understood would be of no shadow of use.