“And thus, you see, we left a goodly portion of our crew out there.
That is a campaign! As to my own notions, this is what I think,--a nasty
country, a wretched climate, a people fit for the gallows.”
“Certainly,” said the young man in citizen’s dress, “things are not
pleasant in Cochin China.”
“Ah, but still”--
“What if you were ordered back?”
“I would go, of course. Somebody must go, you know, and carry
reinforcements there; but I should not care if somebody else”--