Then one of the grooms, a lad I mentioned before as bringing a note to Baroona on one occasion, a long brown-faced lad, born of London parents in the colony, made a diversion by coming round to look at us.

He admired us very much, but my gilt buttons took his attention principally.

He guessed they must have cost a matter of twenty pound, but on my telling him that the whole affair was bought for three pounds, he asked, I remember:-- "What are they made on, then ?" Brass I supposed, and gilt.

So he left me in disgust, and took up with Jim's trowsers, wanting to know "if they was canvas." "Satin velvet," Jim said; and then the Major came out and beckoned us into the drawing-room.
And there she was, between Mrs.Buckley and Mary Hawker, dressed all in white, looking as beautiful as morning.

Frank Maberly stood beside a little table, which the women had made into an altar, with the big Prayer-book in his hand.