If I do not want it, myself, it may turn out useful to keep up some wounded comrade.

It will not add much to the load that I shall have to carry, and which I expect I shall feel, when we first march.

As I am now, I think I could keep up with the best marcher in the regiment but, with the weight of the clothes and pouches, a hundred and twenty rounds of ammunition, and my rifle, it will be a very different thing; and I shall be desperately tired, by the time we get to the end of the day's march.
"Now it is twelve o'clock, and time to turn in, for we march at five." The next morning, when the sick convoy started, the white officers came up to say goodbye to Lisle; and all expressed their regret that he could not accompany the regiment.

The butler had gone on ahead and, as soon as Lisle slipped away, he came up to him and assisted him to make his toilet.

He stained him from head to foot, dyed his hair, and fastened in it some long bunches of black horse hair, which he would wear in the Punjabi fashion on the top of his head.