Trail of the Sword

Once, many years ago, in a kind of despair, you were impelled to say that I would never be anything but a rascally lawyer. This, it may be, sat upon your conscience, for later you turned me gravely towards Paley and the Thirty-nine Articles; and yet I know that in your deepest soldier's heart, you really pictured me, how unavailingly, in scarlet and pipe-clay, and with sabre, like yourself in youth and manhood