You know how I should like to have you with me; but, upon the other hand, there would be inconveniences.

You are, as you have said many a time, my superior officer in our army, and I really should not like to have to give you orders.

Then again, Bull and Macwitty are still more your juniors, having only received their commissions a few months back; and they would feel just as uncomfortable as I should, at having you under them.

I don't think that it would do at all.

Besides, you know, you are not fond of work by any means, and there would be more to do in a regiment like this than in one of our own." "I suppose that it must be so, Terence," O'Grady said resignedly, as he emptied his tumbler; "and besides, there is a sort of superstition in the service that an adjutant should be always able to walk straight to his tent, even after a warm night at mess.