I will drink a glass with Mr.Sisson.Major, where are you wandering off to?
Come and take a glass with us, my boy." "Thanks, Sir William," drawled the young major with the black patch.
"Now, Colonel--I hope you are in good health and spirits." "Never better, Sir William, never better." "I'm very glad to hear it; very glad indeed.

Try my Marsala--I think it is quite good.

Port is beyond us for the moment--for the moment--" And the old man sipped his brown wine, and smiled again.

He made quite a handsome picture: but he was frail.
"And where are you bound, Mr.Sisson?
Towards Rome ?" "I came to meet Lilly," said Aaron.
"Ah! But Lilly has fled over the borders by this time.

Never was such a man for crossing frontiers.