The quarrel may have been about the silliest trifle imaginable.

A single word would have explained the whole thing away.

But to utter it would have stamped one as a coward.

This Egyptian Tra-la-la! It isn't worth the bones of a single grenadier, as our friends across the Rhine would say.

But I expect, before it's settled, there will be men's bones sufficient, bleaching on the desert, to build another Pyramid.