"Those fellows certainly fight a good deal more pluckily than the regular troops do.

It was a capital idea to make all the men take off their uniforms, for I don't suppose the Spaniards, even for a moment, dreamt that we were among their assailants; at any rate, they have no proof that we were.
"You really must get me as your adjutant, Terence.

I see there is very much more fun to be got out of your sort of fighting than there is with the regiment.

I am very pleased, now, that I stuck to Portuguese as you advised me; though it was a great bore, at first." "I hope, Dicky, we sha'n't find, when we get back in the spring, that the corps has been turned over to Beresford as part of his regular command; for I must say that I quite appreciate the advantage of independence.
"Well, this business ought to do us some good.

No doubt the major will report, in warm terms, the assistance we have rendered him; and we shall get good treatment.