Your appearance was a bit suspicious, though.

But what about this black fellow ?" "He is my servant, sir," I replied.
"Humph! But we can't allow privates in this corps to bring their servants.

It is not a picnic nor a shooting expedition." Some one who heard these words cried "Oh!" loudly.
"I beg your pardon, gentlemen," said the Colonel, smiling; "it is.

I should have said this is not a hunting expedition.

We all have to rough it." "I beg pardon, Colonel," said Lieutenant Denham, giving me a quick look.
"Private Moray meant to say the black had been the servant at his home.
I had forgotten the man.