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He accepted dinner and said: "As for Monsieur Gering, your excellency, we are as easily enemies as he and Radisson are comrades-in-arms." "Which is harshly put, monsieur. When a man is breaking prison he chooses any tool. You put a slight upon an honest gentleman." "I fear that neither Mr. Gering nor myself is too generous with each other, your excellency," answered Iberville lightly.
Until death parted them, many years later, she and her husband enjoyed the happiness of a quiet life unclouded by domestic or political troubles. 'Fighting Bob' was the nickname affectionately bestowed upon Sir Robert Sale by his comrades-in-arms.
"Many of my old comrades-in-arms live about here, and I, who served longer, and suffered more than any of them, am walking on foot to the house of a woman of rather questionable reputation! A man, look you, who has thirteen bullets on his breast!... You don't believe it?
The Lady Ermyntrude Loring was first lady to the King's mother. Roger FitzAlan of Farnham and Sir Hugh Walcott of Guildford Castle were each old comrades-in-arms of Nigel's father, and sib to him on the distaff side. Already there has been talk that we have dealt harshly with them. Therefore, my rede is that we be wise and wary and wait until his cup be indeed full."
Then each of these latter bought one of the ponies brought by the new arrivals, for which they paid 100 francs, and forming fresh groups they took to the road for their paternal châteaux, where they turned the horses out to grass for nine months, until they were taken back to Versailles and handed over to other comrades-in-arms.
His general orders were full of undeserved reproaches at a time when the most lavish praise could hardly have met the real deserts of his army. When the wars were done he saw little, save in his official capacity, of his old comrades-in-arms. And yet, from major-general to drummer-boy, he was the man whom they would all have elected to serve under, had the work to be done once more.
He accepted dinner and said: "As for Monsieur Gering, your excellency, we are as easily enemies as he and Radisson are comrades-in-arms." "Which is harshly put, monsieur. When a man is breaking prison he chooses any tool. You put a slight upon an honest gentleman." "I fear that neither Mr. Gering nor myself is too generous with each other, your excellency," answered Iberville lightly.
Then rising with a full glass he proposed a toast: 'Caballeros and comrades-in-arms, let us drink the health of Captain Gaspar Ruiz. And when we had emptied our glasses: 'I intend, the Commander-in-Chief continued, 'to entrust him with the guardianship of our southern frontier, while we go afar to liberate our brethren in Peru.
I'll let you go by. It's hard to stew dry so near the bar!" An hour later the young man set off towards home, and on his way he met two of his comrades-in-arms on the road. "Going to pub?" he inquired. "Going to see that no one does go near it," was the answer. "Picket duty for the rest of the day, we are." "But Wankin " "What?"
"Just fine, Carse," came in the clear, cultured voice of Master Scientist Eliot Leithgow, probably the greatest scientific mind in the solar system, Ku Sui being the only possible exception. He spoke now from his secret laboratory on Jupiter's Satellite III, near Porno, this transcendent genius who, with Friday, was one of Carse's two trusted comrades-in-arms.
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