Our radicals : a tale of love and politics . battalions that will form my rear-guard. Ishall have to leave four battalions for thatpurpose. Have you ever commanded abrigade, Captain Belper ? * Not in the field, General. Ah, well! the responsibility of appoint-ing you to so important a position mustrest in other hands than mine. My ordersare to appoint you to command the rear-guard. Will you breakfast with me at tenoclock, and I shall have more to say toyou. Arthur, who accepted the invitation,VOL. II. 24 114 OUR RADICALS, subsequently found Lord Saxborough tobe a much more agreeable man than h
Our radicals : a tale of love and politics . battalions that will form my rear-guard. Ishall have to leave four battalions for thatpurpose. Have you ever commanded abrigade, Captain Belper ? * Not in the field, General. Ah, well! the responsibility of appoint-ing you to so important a position mustrest in other hands than mine. My ordersare to appoint you to command the rear-guard. Will you breakfast with me at tenoclock, and I shall have more to say toyou. Arthur, who accepted the invitation,VOL. II. 24 114 OUR RADICALS, subsequently found Lord Saxborough tobe a much more agreeable man than hisfirst interview had led him to suppose. Astrict disciplinarian while on duty, he couldunbend, however, in private life, and bevery agreeable. You have a serious business to per-form, said the General, as he left hispresence ; * and from all accounts you arelikely to behave nobly in the face of dangeror death. I only serve my country, said Belper ;and as he spoke, his hand pressed thecrumpled leaves of a small red rose hiddenin his
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