Now speak, and it shall be as you decide.

Shall we avoid the battle, retire from the field ?" "NO!!!" The shout was unanimous and hearty.
"Are you--are you--well, afraid of these thirty thousand knights ?" That joke brought out a good laugh, the boys' troubles vanished away, and they went gaily to their posts.

Ah, they were a darling fifty-two! As pretty as girls, too.
I was ready for the enemy now.

Let the approaching big day come along--it would find us on deck.
The big day arrived on time.

At dawn the sentry on watch in the corral came into the cave and reported a moving black mass under the horizon, and a faint sound which he thought to be military music.