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'In the course of our lives it chances,' says a writer truly, 'that most of us influence directly or indirectly, in a greater or lesser degree, the lives of others; but, as a general rule, we do not recognise this influence until _after_ the effect has taken place.'
The Commandant of the Scots Brigade was yet to realise this.