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You met Miss Richmond there, at Stainton’s ?’ As rills and rivers, brooks and cataracts Pursue their downward course until they find N0 lower channel, as our God enacts By law unchangeable as his fixed mind, As the faint zephy-rs or the rough winds that sweep The profound waters heaving, wave on wave, At some great calm are lul’din equal sleep; we had moved our barraek-furniture over there; and. upon my honor, I had two horses standing in his stables nearly half the Winter ; and then hls claretâ€"nothing but magnums and the dateâ€"seldom younger than ’48, and often older, and everything else, you know, in the same farm. It was no end of a billet, was Cth 0.31 wimorl’sgjbuivl’fi] afraid he’s smashed in that infernal bank thing; what was it? I forget; but I suspect Charley is smashed, and there are no more coverts to shoot and magnums to drink for good fellows at B ; a bore isn’t it? these bank are always ’ DOUBLES AND QUITS: A COMEDY OF ERRORSâ€"PART II. ‘Well, Donald, I was on detachment with my troop last year at Bâ€"â€", up in the north; not a bad 131306 B , the biggest trout you ever saw in alittle lake thereâ€"great yellow fellows, running up to three and four pounds ; and you could hunt with three fairish packs; and the shooting was capital, and there were some really good houses in the country, and altogether it was a good detachment, and â€"a married fellowâ€"who had been in the Fourth, kept mend of good houses about four miles from our place, and was always glad to see a soldier, as old soldiers ought to be, and generally are. \Ve were always thereâ€"Tom Carlton and Baby \Villiams and Iâ€"always. Fellows used to ask if So levél-calm man finds within {he gravy! The Iordly king that. looms above the crowd, The lowly sex-f whose voice is not so loud As the poor tinkling of a child’s toy bell That falls unheeded on our busy ear-â€" Laid side by mde on Death’s wormeaten bier, ’Twixt sex-f and king, what dlfi‘erence ?â€"who can tell? I mansng to keep In for a year, which was luck, as things go nowadays, you know. Well, fihere was afellow Stainton ‘ Yes, I did. The first time it was at an archery party. I can see her now standing looking on undoi- a big chestnut- tree| with a little white hat trimmed with blue and a feather. What do you call these birds, Donald, that can only be caught at night, in the dead of winter, on the tops of the highest mountains ‘2’ ‘Upon my life I don’t know; but it doesn’t signify, does it ?’ ‘ No, no. Well it was a feather out of 'one of those birds she was wearing, and looking so jolly. You know her eyes ?’ ‘ Intimately.’ I had some reason to.’ ‘ W ell, the moment I saw her eyes I felt â€"I’ll be hanged if I can tell you what I felt I’ ‘ Oh ‘. I can imagine.’ ‘ All I know is, I saw nothing else all dayâ€"~blue (eyes, blue eyes, blue eyes every- where. There was a carpet dance afterâ€" wards, and Iwas introduced. I felt such \1 (Hum, mum A no.“ ......‘. .s.,v 21 f001,and she rather seemed to chaff me (some girls go in for that at first, you know), but not so bad as she chuffed Baby \Vrllialns. He was trying to make the running with her, you knowâ€"a conceited young duffel“, too. He had just come to us from the Blues, and was telling her lots of fine things he had been doing at Windsor, and she said to him, ‘ But what happens to your lessons allthis time ‘2’ and he couldn’t understand, you know; and then she said, ‘ I wonder the provost lets you out so much ; ’ and then the Baby knew what ghe meant, that she thought he was still at Eaton, You knowâ€"ha; 113! ha! And wasn'the disgub‘ted 7 And I laughed, and she laughed, and the Baby went away in a rage, and somehow I felt better, and then we went into supper, and UUULUL' mu, yum, h .. .. W , 1 l 7 ‘ got no end of friends. i thought she was an angelâ€"and so she 'is, by Jupiter ! and I an; the grcatest rufiian iu the hemiâ€" sphere.’ , I 1 in ‘I ,J..~A J” .A-L N-... I’ V " ’ ‘ V‘Gct on, Adolfo, and please do not trouble about details,’ He was going to be a bore evidenfuly. ‘ Well, I saw her again at church on Sunday, and then 1t was the same story i - ' - - I x 1 , , __- <.ȣl Duuuay, emu uwu u um. y... ,7 m, ,, V. â€"n0thing but blue eyes, blue eyes; and she rather looked at me, I thought, and I was ashamed of myself for staring. I spoke to her when she came out, and the]; the flower she was carrying, and I gave her the book, but asked her to let me keep the flower*conf0undedly impartiâ€" 1 J u 1, #1.. :L “WI. w- _ _ nent, wasn’t it? But I couldn’t help it, and, I suppose she saw that, for she let me keep it, although I suspect she was a little angry at first. Anyhow, I kept it, and wore it till it died ; and would you believe it? I am wearing it now next CHAPTER VI.â€"â€"CONTINUED @itmtm. THE LEVELLER. “immgo M. Teefy, Esq. ‘ Oh, I don’t think it matters,’ I broke in; ‘ let us get to the results my good fellow. It isn’t necessary to recall ever y little incident.’ ‘ Yes, but there are some things I must tell you, you know. I don’t quite re- member thrc I met her next. It was immediately after, for she was staying first at Stainton’s and then at another house in the neighborhood, and there was a lot going on at the time. It was a pie» nic I met her next at, I believe. I re- member Thornton, her father’s aide-de- camp, was always hanging about her at it. I remember beginning to hate Thorn- ton, though I had liked him before, and I was devilish glad whenTommy Carleton by accident, of course, let off a cham- pagne cork into his eye and blackened it; and that was an odd thing to be pleased at, you knowâ€"so ill natured, ch ? Well, then, there was a dinner-party at Stain- ton’s, and I took her into dinner, and she was awfully jolly seemed to take an inâ€" terest in what I said, which nobody ever seemed to do before, you know, except my grandmother, perhaps, who believes in me, and is a little touched in the up- per story ; and after dinner she sang something about a garden of roses, and I said something civil, and she looked queer and jelly, and blushed, and I felt queer and jelly, and I suppose I blushed too ; and then neither of us spoke another word that night. \Vhen I got to the bar- racks I said to myself, ‘You’ve fallen in love with Mary Richmond, Adolphus, and you’re the dâ€"dest rascal out of the United States of America.’ ‘ But why ?â€"why ? ‘ I’ll tell you presently. Not long after that we gave a little dance in the mess- room at Bâ€"â€", and she came. I’Ve did it very well, I can tell you. Mrs Stain- ton came over and did hostessâ€"~â€" a jolly old girl she wasâ€"and, of course, I was host. The people called me ‘ Pater- familias,’ and ‘ Papa,’ I remember. Well, I suppose I was excited with the whole thingâ€"entertaining the people, and so on â€"â€"and rather lost command of myself, and couldn’t conceal my love for Mary ; and I kept asking her to dance with me, and she kept dancing with me, and the people looked and giggled. I didn’t care and she didn’t care; and she threw over Thornton, and that ass Ducksworth, the county member, and Tommy Carleton. At last she said, I really mustn’t dance with you any more ;’ and I said I would not dance another step that night then ; and she said, ‘What! not with Miss Mapleton ?’ (they had some humbugging chaff about Miss Maplcton and me) ; and and I said ‘No,’ and went on talking a lot of nonsense about going into a monas- tery, and that sort of thing, for I was ex- cited. And then she said, did I really care so much about dancing with her? and that there were many other better dancers in the room; and then I fairly blurted out, ‘ But there’s only YOU ;’ and she looked at me with such a look in her eves,Donald, and then looked down, and I said, ‘ Never mind dancing if your tired ; only sit down and let me look at you.’ Then she said, ‘ But you can look at me dancing with anybody else ;’ and I said, ‘ I can’t bear to see you dancing with anyâ€" body else; it’s agony to me : I could kill anybody else ;’ and then somehow I found myself (scoundrel that I was) telling her that I was dying of love for her, and she said well, it don’t matter what she said; but at all events, ‘Donald, she let me know that she was tremendously fond of me; and I took a glove from her, and her card and pencil, and a rose from her hair; and then Mrs. Stainton came and said it was three o’clockâ€" time to go ; and I didn’t know whether it was three o’clock in the afternoon, or three o’clock in the morning. Then 'she went away, and I remember I went into the supper room and drank two tumblers of cham- pagne, and sang songs; and I remember a fellow saying, ‘ What’shappened to you old boy ‘2 I always thought you were an owl before, but tonight you’re as good as a play ;’ and I felt mad and miserable and jelly all at once, for I knew I was a seoundrel. Oh Donald 1 I ean’ttell you what I felt next morning when I woke up and saw her glove and her rose and all her things lying on the table. I thought I might as well take a pistol and shoot myself, for I had deceived her and cheat- ed her like a. low thief; but I could not help itâ€"upon my word of honour I could notâ€"and I hadn’t meant to do it; but it was done, done, and couldn’tbe undone, for I was MARRIED already.’ ‘ MARRIED already?’ ‘Yes, MARRIED already] Neither of us spoke for some time after this grounding revelation. At last Bur-‘ ridge broke the Enema 1 r ‘ You think me a Scoundrel and a vil- lain, Bruce, I know that, and I deserve it; but I wasn’t a deSIgmng scoupdrel, and somehow I don’t feel like a Villaln. Ifyou, knew all you would make allow- ance for me; and if you. knew the 1nfer« nal grief I’ve suffered, I think you would be a little sorry for me, and perhaps not turn your back on me. I can’t be sur- prised if you do, or blame you for it, of course ; but it is a. dismal thing, with all this trouble on my mind, to have no friendâ€"not a soul in the world, And I . have taken such a liking to you, old tel- . low : do you think you must really desert me altogether ?’ my heart, and I will wear it till I die. I swear it. The next time I saw her was â€"let me see Where was it ?’ 77 Thcrue was a tear in the poor fellow’s eye, a pathos in his usually stolid voice; ‘%av%%/,w«/fl2_ W PART III. CHAPTER. VIIâ€"BURRIDGE’S STORY. ‘ When I first went into the army (I suppose you and I have about the same service), I was in infantry, you know, Donaldâ€"the th Light Infantryâ€"not a bad lot, but changed, as all the two- battallion regiments are new. “fell, I joined the depot in Ireland, and had my head nearly drilled off; for it was at the beginning of the Crimean war, and they were drilling and shipping off as fast as they could. I was uncommonly glad, I can tell you, when I passed my drill, and was told off for the next draft for the seat of war. I was a very young ensign indeed, and if it was delightful to any of them to get away from the humdrum barrackvsquare and the eternal seargeant major, it was delightful to me you may be sure. I’ll never forget the night beâ€" fore we sailed from Queenstownâ€"it was a great night altogether. \Ve were all Wild with delight at going to sea the fighting. The old birds hoped to make up for lost time, and all we youngsters expected to be captains in a month. I remember the only thing that I regretted was, that I should be promoted too soon to have any chances of earying the col- ors before the enemy. Ahl there was another thing 1 was sorry for-my bro- ther Jack ; he’s dead and gone long ago7 poor soul I He came down to see us off, and was tremendously cut up at partingr with me; and seeing; him so out up out me up worse, you know. I remember he said, ‘I'm afraid we’ll never meet again, Dolly l ’ Dismal, wasn't it? Of course he meant that l was safe to be killâ€" ed; but I wasn’t, and he died of the pleurisy.’ Whit a difficulty the fellow had in starting I Every straw seemed to act as a drag on his wheels; but, on the vircsâ€" acquirit-eundo principle I let him have his head. ‘ Of course I willâ€"because a half confession is no confession after allâ€" you Would not understand anything if I didn’t, besides. Let us get off and pick- et the ponies. and sit down under this big tree. It’s awfully hot, and I think I can speak better when I’m sitting still.’ “ ‘ We had a jolly voyage and glorious weather. All the seaâ€"the Mediterran- ean, l meanâ€"was crowded with trans- portsâ€"strong fellows going out to be killed or wounded, and wounded fellows coming home to get strong or die. Every ship we met we signalled, ‘Has the place fallen ?’ and when the answer came, ‘No,’ we all cheered like madmen. We were awfully impatient. \Vhen we got into the Black Sea everybody was in a fever; and I remember, when my serâ€" vant called me at four o'clock one morn- ing and shouted, ‘Here we are at the war, yer annerl glory be to God 5’ I rushed upon deck with nothing on but my shirt, and saw the sullcy looking rocks at the mouth of Balaklava harbor through a drizzling rain, and felt a little dashed, and thought to myself, ‘Hang it! Jr’ll never get away from this infernal place alive, or dead either;7 and then there was a tremendous boom ! boom I boom I â€"â€"the first gun ever I heard fired in earnestâ€"and 1 was as right and jolly as possible in a moment. But I beg your pardon, Donald 1 forgotâ€"of course you went through the whole thing yourself, 1nd here 1 am yarning away flike an old man-ofwar’s-man in his native village. l 1 beg your pardond ‘ Turn my back on you, old fellow l’ I cried, ‘I will not; I am sure you would never designedly do anything cruel, or unmanly, or unlike a gentleman. I won’t turn my back on youâ€"depend upon that I can see you must have behaved with terrible weakness; but we’re all weak miserable sinners, and I won’t preach, for the chances are I would have done the same or worse myself'.’ ‘ Thank you, Donald; you wouldn’t, I know you’re a good fellow for saying so.’ ‘ W111 you tell me about thisâ€"this de- plorable marriage ?’ and a simplicity about the recital of his sorrow and remorse, that touched me, and might have softened an austerer moralist; and who was I to refuse this artlcss sinner my sympathy and friendâ€" liest offices? \Ve accordingly dismounted and dis- posed ourselves, he to tell and I to listen to Burridge’s story. ‘Well, 1 needn’t talk about the war. OF course I went through what was left ofit, and paid two‘visits to the blessed Redan ; got out of that more frightened than hurt, ha, ha I Then you remember, when the peace came none of us knew where we were going. 1 was horridly sold when the peace came I liked the wi!d sort of lifeâ€"didn’t you ? but since it was come, I hoped we might be sent OH to some wild sort of place, where there was lots of shooting and adventures withâ€"â€" with the natives, and that kind of thing; but I was sold again. I remember the colonel coming down to the mess-hut the night he got the orders about our move. He was looking disgusted. ‘Where do you think we’re going to, gentlemen ?’ he said, ‘ Has the order come, sir ?’ every one shouted, ‘ Yes, it’s come. Can you guess Where we’re off too ? Then we all began to sing; out something â€" ‘ Home,’ ‘ ‘ Canada,7 ‘ india,’ ‘ Cape,’ ‘ China,’ ‘Japan,’ ‘Mauritius,’ 850. &e. No one ever thought of the Mediterranean, as our headquarters had gone from there to ‘ OH, don’t mention it, said T; but my tone implied that any repetition of the sort of thing was not expected. Whole N0. 567. ‘Well, we sent home to a fellow on‘ leave to negotiate for a couple of actres: ses to come out for two months to play three nights aâ€"fortnight. By this time it was late autumn, and before long we heard that two were coming out by the next mailâ€"Miss Beatrice Almine and. Miss Carlotta Seymour (jolly names, weren't they ?) of' the Princess’s the Hay- market, the Adelphi, and the provinces â€"rather more than less of the latter, I suspect. Out they came accordingly. Beatrice I‘ rmine (Dick Winslow who had, been at Oxford, swore he remembered her under the name of Sue Mutton,» the daughter of a hair-dresser in the High Street) wasn’t a bad sort ofa little“ girlj good-natured, quite young, cheery, and rather pretty, but she dropped her' ‘ h’s’ all over the place, and was a reg-‘ ular cormorant as far as garlic was con-” cerned. As for Carlotta Seymour, she“ was â€"she was a showy womanâ€" turned of thirty ten years older than me. She‘ was handsome. yes, she was handsome,~ but she had a bad face, cold and sneerz ing; and then she set up for a genius and mystery. To hear her talk you would» have believed that she Was the daughter‘ of a royal duke in disguise, and grand‘ daughter of the Tragic Muse. ‘XVell, being on the committee, and standing a lot of' tin and that, of course" I got to know these women immediately; and I used to think it rather a swell thing to be always about them; riding? with them, or standing them dinners at the hotel, or dropping into their ova rooms after mess and ordering in no end of suppers. Most of the committee used to come to the supers too, but I used to pay â€"â€" 1 preferred to pay, because .I could patronise outsiders and take them in. I liked to say to a fellow ‘Disens gaged to-night, old boy? Dine with me at mess, and I’ll take you afterwards to see the Seymour and the Armine; they'll be delighted to see you as a friend of mine.’ And of course they were delights ed, for every new fellow was sure to do something for themâ€"give them a dinner or a drive, or a mount or something, you may be sure. 80 every one was pleased, and no one more than myself I thought [ was no end of a man of the worldâ€"5 quite a celebrated fellow in the garrison, that every one was talking of me and my dramatic suppersâ€"confounded little goose ! and I remember being as proud as Lucifer when even the colonel noticed it; and one night when I left mess rather early, his saying, ‘ ls Dante going to his Beatrice, or. Werther to his Charlotte?’ I knew in a kind of way that he meant the suppers, and 1 said, ‘ Both, sir,’ and every one roared ; and I began to think. and 1 did think, by Jove, that l was a clever follow after all. Car- lotta kept telling me I was, and of course she was “a judge, I thought, I was rather inclined to cotton to Beatrice at first, but so was every one else, and it was a bore always struggling with a dozen iellows for who was to get next her and that. And at last one night Carlotta said she was astonished that a fellow of my ‘soul’ should go in for Beatrice ; she was dis- appointed in me, she said, and that Bea- trice was a vulgar uneducated little mil- liner, and a designing toad, and that it was one of the trials of her lot to be as- sociated with her, but that she was sup- ported by the divine aspirations of genius; . and then she cried a little, and told me about Beatrice’s garlic and ‘ h’s,’ though of course I knew about them ; and then she said it had been one of her few com: forts in this desolated island to believe that the only man with a spark of genius ‘ Well, it was a hot summerâ€"intoler-“ ably hot; and they had invented the bri: gade system, and we were worried to" deathâ€"drilled by the colonel, grilled by the brigadier, and eaten alive by the gov-f ernor. It was abominable. I thought of taking leave ; if I had, I might have been all right now, but I didn’t, which was my bad luck. At last it was determined,. well on in the season, to get up some garrison theatricals, and I went in strong for them. I don’t mean to say I could aet7 but 1 was fond of that sort of thing, and 1 supported the idea and put my name down for a £50 subscription. I had more money than most of the fellows, you see, and they thought that immense, and put me on the committee at once. I liked‘e that, and gave another "fifty ’ for scenery. After that, the fellows suddenly seemed/3 to think I was an authority, and consult‘ ed me about everything, and I liked that", for I was a youngster, you know. So when it came to be a question what we were to do for ladies, and some one sug‘ gested that the youngest-looking fellowsL should take the female parts, 1 pooh‘ poohed theidea, and said, ‘ Nonsence, get ’em out from London ;’ and when they stared and said something about its being' salt, I said dwn the expense, I’ll guard antee another hundred ;’ and then eVery one cheered and said‘ Bravo. Burridge l’ and it was settled. But they didn’t let me in for a, whole hundred, for the gov; ernor and the brigadiers and other swells- were put on their mettle when they heard that an ensign was shelling out for every-( thing, ; and the colonel got in a rage and cried, dâ€"n his impudeneel putme down for ‘ fifty ’â€"that’ll show him 1’ Just as ifl cared, and wasn’t as pleased as Punehj to get his ‘ fifty ’â€"the ridiculous old» noodle ‘ Oh yes”, frequently,’ saiii I féa-ring a‘_ minute historical and geological survey oi the island. the war. After there had been lots of, guesses, and everyone wrong, the old major growled outâ€"l can hear him now “â€"â€"‘ Faith, _1 believe We must be going» te the devil l’ and the colonel took theorder out of his pocket, and said, ‘ That’s the nearest guess that’s been made yet 3 major; we’re going to Malta.’ Most o the fellows swore a good deal, for they had had enough of that kind of thing; I felt awfully sorry myself. I hated the idea of' Malta; I couldnt say Why exâ€"‘ actly. I think it must have been a pre: sentiment. Do you believe in presentiw‘ ments, Donald ?’A ' ‘ More or lessf ‘ _ , ‘Well, [hated going there, but there we went ; you’ve been there, I suppose ?’