Why not?
I kept my secret, and determined to become a man at whom no one would wish to laugh.

I was in the Company's service then.

You recollect her jesting once about the Indian army, and my commanding black people, and saying that the Line only was fit for--some girl's jest ?" "No; I recollect nothing of it." "I never forgot it.

I threw up all my prospects, and went into the Line.
Whether I won honour there or not I need not tell you.

I came back to England years after, not unworthy, as I fancied, to look your sister in the face as an equal.