“Pray, sir,” said Juan, “if I may presume,
What brought you here?”—“Oh! nothing very rare—
Six Tartars and a drag-chain—”—“To this doom
But what conducted, if the question ’s fair,
Is that which I would learn.”—“I served for some
Months with the Russian army here and there;
And taking lately, by Suwarrow’s bidding,
A town, was ta’en myself instead of Widdin.”