He did not offer to speak to me, till I had walked up close to his bed-side: --If you are captain _Shandy's_ servant, said he, you must present my thanks to your master, with my little boy's thanks along with them, for his courtesy to me; --if he was of _Leven's_--said the lieutenant. --I told him your honour was --Then, said he, I served three campaigns with him in _Flanders_, and remember him, --but 'tis most likely, as I had not the honour of any acquaintance with him, that he knows nothing of me. 
'When I walked up to his bed-side, the lieutenant said to me: "If you are captain Shandy's servant, present my thanks to your master, with my little boy's thanks too. If he was of Leven's regiment" - I told him your honour was - "Then," said he, "I served three campaigns with him in Flanders, and remember him, but 'tis most likely that he knows nothing of me. 