----In cases like this, corporal, said my uncle _Toby_, slipping his right hand down to the middle of his cane, and holding it afterwards truncheon-wise with his forefinger extended, ----'tis no part of the consideration of a commandant, what the enemy dare, --or what they dare not do; he must act with prudence. 
'In cases like this, corporal,' said my uncle Toby, 'a commandant must act with prudence. 