I have many thanks yet to give him for all his most kind attentions." "I know he is most anxious to see you," said Mrs.Dalrymple, with a very peculiar emphasis, and evidently desiring that I should inquire the reasons of this anxiety.

I, however, most heroically forbore indulging my curiosity, and added that I should endeavor to find him on my way to the barracks; and then, hastily looking at my watch, I pronounced it a full hour later than it really was, and promising to spend the evening--my last evening--with them, I took my leave and hurried away, in no small flurry to be once more out of reach of Mrs.Dalrymple's fire, which I every moment expected to open upon me..