"I don't know but that I would have chanced it, even for a crust of bread.

I tell you, if the French had not come in when they did, there would not have been a man alive in hospital at the end of another forty-eight hours.

The men were so furious that, if they could have got at arms, I believe everyone who could have managed to crawl out would have joined in a sally, and have shot down every Spaniard they met in the streets, till they were overpowered and killed.
"Now, let us hear your adventures.

Of course, I saw in orders what good work you did, that day when you were in our camp, against the French when they attacked Donkin.

Some of our fellows went across to see you, the morning after the big battle; but they could not find you, and heard afterwards, from some men of Hill's division, that you had been seen marching away in a body, along the hills." Terence then gave an account of the attack by the French upon his regiment, and how he had fallen into their hands.
"That was well done, Terence.