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I know the distance which is between us; and, because your honour hath been so kind and good as to treat me with more familiarity than any other officer ever did, if I had been base enough to take any freedoms, or to encroach upon your honour's goodness, I should deserve to be whipt through the regiment. I hope, therefore, sir, you will not suspect me of any such attempt."

"Since you must have observed yourself that this is no joke, and since at least half your guests must also have concluded that after all that has been said this youth MUST blow his brains out for honour's sake I as master of this house, and before these witnesses, now call upon you to take steps." "Yes, but what am I to do, Lebedeff? What steps am I to take? I am ready." "I'll tell you.

The Irish haymaker now stepped forward, and, with a peculiar twist of the hips and shoulders, which those only who have seen it can picture to themselves, said, "Plase your honour's honour, I have a little word to say too about the dog." "Say it, then," said Mr. Marshal.

The master of the beasts at the Exeter 'Change, sent him down a large bear, with it a long letter of directions, concerning the food &c. of the animal, and many solicitations respecting the agreeable quadrupeds which he was desirous to send to the baronet, at a moderate price, and concluding in this manner: 'and remain your honour's most devoted humble servant, J. P. Permit me, sir Guilfred, to send you a buffalo and a rhinoceros. As neat a postscript as I ever heard the tradesmanlike coolness with which these pretty little animals occurred to him just at the finishing of his letter!

"Your honour's going to Dublin, are you?" said the woman, suddenly and sharply, while the blood mounted into the cheek of her companion, as if from some feeling of embarrassment.

Surely the great one felt some love for him, sufficient to condone a little fiction which had been kept up simply for his Honour's pleasure. But the Frank had his map before him in the saddle, and he more than once dismounted to consult the compass on his watch-chain. After three hours they reached a plain of alternating sand and rocks, where nothing grew except some prickly shrub.

May my cursed fortunes, too, better themselves, is the prayer of "Your honour's afflicted Chaplain-in-Ordinary, J. S." And now, as Mr. Sampson refuses to speak, it will be our duty to acquaint the reader with those matters whereof the poor chaplain did not care to discourse on paper. Gumbo's loquacity had not reached so far as Long Acre, and Mr.

Rustem, thus answering said: "Thou art the King, Source of command, pure honour's sacred spring; And here I stand to follow thy behest, Obedient ever be thy will expressed, And services required Old age shall see My loins still bound in fealty to thee." To this the King: "Rejoice we then to-day, And on the morrow marshal our array."

The tour, indeed, has been a wapenschouwing, with oratory of the most dangerous and pernicious type for its accompaniment. His Honour's contribution to this interesting display of martial ardour has been couched, as usual, in the enigmatic form. He has spoken another parable. A mind so fertile in image and in simile cannot have lost much of its wonted vigour.

Maltravers moved with a sigh, and his eyes rested on the form of the steward with his hand on the door. "Shall I give your honour's message?" said Mr. Justis, gravely. "No; take care for the future; leave me now." Mr. Justis made one leg, and then, well pleased, took to both. "Well," thought he, as he departed, "how foreign parts do spoil a gentleman! so mild as he was once!