1 He had burned several times to enlist.
2 He took the matter as an affront to him.
3 He was continually assailed by questions.
4 He and the loud one came near to fighting over it.
5 He adopted the important air of a herald in red and gold.
6 He had long despaired of witnessing a Greeklike struggle.
7 He had just put a costly board floor in his house, he said.
8 He came flying back from a brook waving his garment bannerlike.
9 He came near to convincing them by disdaining to produce proofs.
10 He lay down on a wide bunk that stretched across the end of the room.
11 He had imagined peoples secure in the shadow of his eagle-eyed prowess.
12 He wished to be alone with some new thoughts that had lately come to him.
13 He was opposed by men who advocated that there were other plans of campaign.
14 He had put them as things of the bygone with his thought-images of heavy crowns and high castles.
15 He could not accept with assurance an omen that he was about to mingle in one of those great affairs of the earth.
16 He had, of course, dreamed of battles all his life--of vague and bloody conflicts that had thrilled him with their sweep and fire.
17 He was swelled with a tale he had heard from a reliable friend, who had heard it from a truthful cavalryman, who had heard it from his trustworthy brother, one of the orderlies at division headquarters.
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