The dear girls and I were in the conservatory in the morning, and all of a sudden we heard the door thrown open, and two men coming towards us talking from the breakfast-room.

We could not see them for the plants, but when we heard the voice of one of them, the girls got into a terrible flutter, and I was very much frightened myself.

However, there was no escape, so we came round the corner on them as bold as we could, and there was this Dr.Mulhaus, as we call him, walking with him." "With him ?--with who ?" "The Emperor Alexander, my dear, whose voice we had recognised; I thought you would have known whom I meant." "My dear love," said the Vicar, "I hope you reflect how sacred that is, and what a good friend I should lose if the slightest hint as to who he was, were to get among the gentry round.

You don't think he has recognised you ?" "How is it likely, brother, that he would remember an English governess, whom he never saw but three times, and never looked at once?
I have often wondered whether the Major recognised him." "No; Buckley is a Peninsular man, and although at Waterloo, never went to Paris.

Lans--Mulhaus, I mean, was not present at Waterloo.