We confide, and we hesitate to accept a boon: we are jealous, and we would lay down life to attain it.
"What a handsome fellow Erpingham is!" said a young man in a cavalry regiment.
Godolphin heard and groaned audibly.
"And what a devilish handsome girl he is dancing with!" said another young man, from Oxford.
"Oh, Miss Vernon!--By Jove, Erpingham seems smitten.

What a capital thing it would be for her!" "And for him, too!" cried the more chivalrous Oxonian.
"Humph!" said the officer.
"I heard," renewed the Oxonian, "that she was to be married to young Godolphin.

He was staying here a short time ago.

They rode and walked together.

What a lucky fellow he has been.