"I should have thought you would like to go and sit upon the bragging brute.

Why, last time, when I went with you, he talked to both of us as if we were two privates in his Boer corps." "Yes, he's a self-satisfied, inflated sort of fellow; but he's wounded and a prisoner." "What of that?
It's only what he ought to be.

I want to know what's to be done with him." "The Colonel won't send him to the Boer lines when he's well enough to move, I hope." "Not he.

I expect he'll be kept till he can be handed over to the General.

Here, I'll come with you." I was quite willing, and we descended to the hospital, as the shut-off part of one of the passages was called; and there sat the only patient and prisoner, with an armed sentry close at hand to prevent any attempt at escape.
The Captain turned his head sharply on hearing our footsteps, and gave us both a haughty stare, which amused Denham, making him look to me and smile.
"Oh, you've come at last," said the patient.