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In this happy situation let us leave her for a while: the young Horatio claims his share of attention; and it is time to see what encouragement and success his martial ardor met with on the banks of the Danube. Horatio's reception by the officers of the army; his behaviour in the battle; his being taken prisoner by the French; his treatment among them, and many other particulars.

"Do you really mean, Hugh," he went on to ask, in a voice that trembled more or less despite Horatio's effort to control the same, "that you half expect to find K. K. lying alongside the road, either dead, or else insensible from the pain of his broken leg?" "Well, I wasn't just thinking things would be as bad as all that," Hugh hastened to say.

The real exposition for Hamlet differs from the other tragedies in requiring an exposition comes in the great speech of the Ghost in Scene V. The contrast between this speech and Horatio's lecture in the first scene, exemplifies the difference between a dramatized and an undramatized exposition. The crisis, as we now learn, began months or years before the rise of the curtain.

This treatment, of course, increased the natural roughness of the sailors; and, altogether, the conditions were such that Horatio's opinion of the Royal Navy was sadly altered.

The following passage, in which Horatio's character is described by Hamlet, is wanting in the first quarto:

I take it the poor old thing got scared when he found himself past fifty, and he had to start a proof. It's his egoism all over again. I don't suppose he really cares a rap for Mrs. Levitt." "You don't think his heart beats faster when he sees her coming?" "I don't. Horatio's heart beats faster when he sees himself making love to her." "I see. It's just middle age." "Just middle age."

But to be deceived time after time, as I've been deceived you know the solemn language your father has used, Diana, for you have heard him and to rely on a sum of money on a certain date, as I have relied again and again, after Horatio's assurance that I might depend upon him it's too bad, Diana; it's more than any one can endure.

The Creston physician who was a keen man in his way, for a country doctor pronounced the case altogether undreamt of before in Horatio's philosophy, and kept constant notes of it. Some of these have, I believe, found their way into the medical journals. After a while there came, like a thief in the night, that which I suppose was poor Selphar's one unconscious, golden mission in this world.

But likely he'll get another one better'n that. And we're gettin' along, after a fashion. Course, we're behind on the rent, and we miss a meal now and then; but most folks eat too much anyway, and things are bound to come out all right in the end. There's Rowena, she's been promised a chance to be taken on as extra cash girl in a store. And Horatio's gettin' big enough to be of some help.

Chatterton, newly arrived in the handsome suite of apartments Cousin Horatio's hospitality always allowed her, looked out of the window, and, having no one else to confide her opinions to, was not averse to chatting with her French maid. "Isn't it perfectly absurd, Hortense, to see that old man? and to think how particular and aristocratic he used to be!