The public enemy will exult in my flight--I shall find a time to show them that they exult too early.

This youth that has fallen stood betwixt a grasping kinsman and my inheritance, for you know that my marriage-bed is barren; yet, peace be with him! the country can better spare him than your friend Lord Evandale, who, after behaving very gallantly, has, I fear, also fallen." "What a fatal day!" ejaculated the Major.

"I heard a report of this, but it was again contradicted; it was added, that the poor young nobleman's impetuosity had occasioned the loss of this unhappy field." "Not so, Major," said Grahame; "let the living officers bear the blame, if there be any; and let the laurels flourish untarnished on the grave of the fallen.

I do not, however, speak of Lord Evandale's death as certain; but killed, or prisoner, I fear he must be.

Yet he was extricated from the tumult the last time we spoke together.