Midwinter Town: A Novella
Sir Novoveski flushed from delight.
“Gracious Colonel,” said he, “more than once a father blames his child only to let someone deny what he says; and I think that it is impossible to please a parent's heart more than by such a denial. Reports have reached me already of Adam's good service; but I am really comforted now for the first time, when I hear these reports confirmed by such renowned lips. They say that he is not only a manful soldier, but steady, which is even a wonder to me, for he was always a whirlwind. The rogue had a love for war from youth upward; and the best proof of this is that he ran away from home as a boy. If I could have caught him at that time, I would not have spared