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 to stop it. "For shame," he said, "gentlemen cavaliers, brawling together in so glorious a field of victory!—Are you mad? Or are you intoxicated with the glory which you have both this day gained?"

"It is not my fault, so please your Excellency," said Dalgetty. "I have been known a bonus socius, a bon camarado, in all the services of Europe; but he that touches a man under my safeguard"

"And he," said Allan, speaking at the same time, "who dares to bar the coarse of my just vengeance"

"For shame, gentlemen," again repeated Montrose; "I have other business for you both,—business of deeper importance than any private quarrel, which you may easily find a more fitting time to settle. For you. Major Dalgetty, kneel down."

"Kneel!" said Dalgetty; I have not learned to obey that word of command, saving when it is given from the pulpit. In the Swedish discipline, the front-rank do