He was adored by the men.
He could drink more than any officer of the whole mess, including old Heavytop, the colonel.
He could spar better than Knuckles, the private (who would have been a corporal but for his drunkenness, and who had been in the prize-ring); and was the best batter and bowler, out and out, of the regimental club.
He rode his own horse, Greased Lightning, and won the Garrison cup at Quebec races.
There were other people besides Amelia who worshipped him.
Stubble and Spooney thought him a sort of Apollo; Dobbin took him to be an Admirable Crichton; and Mrs.
Major O'Dowd acknowledged he was an elegant young fellow, and put her in mind of Fitzjurld Fogarty, Lord Castlefogarty's second son.
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