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When he was a young dog, and gave tongue upon a scent, a challenge was offered, but never accepted, that the dog should find, hunt, and pull down two buck elk, single-handed, within a fortnight, assisted only by his master, with no other weapon than a hunting-knife; there is no doubt whatever that he would have performed it easily. He then belonged to Lieutenant Pardoe, of the 15th Regiment.
Max must have thought that I was suspiciously glad to see him, for he looked from one to the other rather anxiously. 'Sorry to be so late, Ursula; but I met Pardoe, and he entrapped me into an argument. Well, how have you and my friend Hamilton got on together? I turned away without answering, but Mr. Hamilton responded, in a melancholy voice
Perhaps the most peculiar origin of all belongs to some surnames which seem to have come from oaths or exclamations. The fairly common names Pardoe, Pardie, etc., come from the older name Pardieu, or "By God," a solemn form of oath. We have, too, the English form in the name Bigod. Names like Rummiley come from the old cry of sailors, Rummylow, which they used as sailors use "Heave-ho" now.
Ferroll murdered his wife, and the author would have lost nothing and gained much by taking us into his confidence. The style of the "Adopted Heir" is at once pompous and feeble. From writers of the Mrs. Southworth school we should expect nothing else; but Miss Pardoe was capable of something better. Fanny. From the French of ERNEST FEYDEAU. New York: Evert D. Long & Co.
Each in a goodly-sized volume, we have had a sort of general biographical notice of Celebrated Etonians, and of Speakers of the House of Commons, the first by an able man, quite competent to the subject. Miss Pardoe has edited the first volume of a series of Memoirs of the Queens of Spain, of which the author is a Spanish lady, resident in America.
Having divined who will be the heir, after reading forty pages, we are a little impatient that Miss Pardoe should cherish the secret with every imaginable precaution until the 350th page, when she brings it out with a flourish, as if no human sagacity could possibly have discovered it. This keeping secrets that are no secrets, the besetting weakness of novelists, was once quite affecting.
"You may have heard, First Lieutenant," he began, very pompously, "that I am a very observant man, and that I notice everything that goes on board my ship?" "Indeed, sir," said Pardoe politely, wondering what on earth was coming next. "Yes," said the commander. "I am unnaturally observant, and though some people may think I am a faddist, there is very little that escapes my notice.
To think that it should come to this. Poor, poor old Puffin!" A few minutes later Falland, on his way aft to visit the captain, glanced into the wardroom. Pardoe still sat in the armchair muttering softly to himself with his head bowed down between his hands. The floor, the table, and the chair were littered with tracts of all the colours of the rainbow.
He exhibited a gory handkerchief as proof of his injuries. "Do either of you men bear any grudge against the other?" asked Pardoe, knowing that they had often been ashore together. "No, sir," came the immediate reply. "Well, go away, and don't make such fools of yourselves again. We can't have all this bickering and fighting over a simple game of draughts."
"We will have the lectures once a week, at 8 p.m., say on Thursdays," he went on, "and on Sundays I will conduct an evening service at 6.0., at which, of course, all officers will attend. You will read the lessons and collect the offertory, Mr. Pardoe.
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