"Barry's first taste of battle was only a skirmish against a small rearguard of Frenchmen who occupied an orchard besi…"

"It is well to dream of glorious war in a snug armchair at home, but it is a very different thing to see it first hand…"

"A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but…"

"The Prussian service was considerably worse than the English. The life that the private soldier led was a frightful o…"

"Five years in the army, and some considerable experience of the world, had by now dispelled any of those romantic not…"

"Barry was born clever enough at gaining a fortune, but incapable of keeping one. For the qualities and energies which…"

"Now all the bills came down on him together. All the bills he had been contracting for the years of his marriage and …"

"Barry had his faults, but no man could say of him that he was not a good and tender father. He loved his son with a b…"

"(final lines) Utterly baffled and beaten, what was the lonely and broken-hearted man to do? He took the annuity and r…"

"No lad who has liberty for the first time, and twenty guineas in his pocket, is very sad, and Barry rode towards Dubl…"