However, it is evident that they have both behaved extraordinarily well in this fight with the Annette, and I cannot imagine that, whatever story a young fellow might tell to civilians, he would venture to assume a military title to which he had no claim, on arrival at a military station.
Will you please ask them to come in?
At any rate, their story will be worth hearing." "Good day, gentlemen," he went on, as Terence and Ryan entered.

"I have to congratulate you, very heartily, upon the very efficient manner in which you assisted in the capture of the French privateer that has, for some time, been doing great damage among the islands.
She has been much more than a match for any of our privateers here and, although she has been chased several times by the cruisers, she has always managed to get away.
"And now, may I ask how you happened to be approaching the island, in a small boat, at the time that the encounter took place ?" "Certainly, sir.

We were both prisoners at Bayonne.

I myself had been captured by the French, when endeavouring to cross the frontier into Portugal with my regiment; while Lieutenant Ryan was wounded at Talavera, and was in the hospital there when the Spaniards left the town, and the French marched in." "What is your regiment, Colonel O'Connor ?" "It is called the Minho regiment, sir, and consists of two battalions.

We have had the honour of being mentioned in general orders more than once; and were so on the day after the first attack of Victor upon Donkin's brigade, stationed on the hill forming the left of the British position at Talavera." The governor looked at his adjutant who, rising, went to a table on which were a pile of official gazettes.