Mind orders; let me see if you are sailor enough instinctively to obey an old captain's orders." "Trust me, Sir George," replied Caroline, laughingly, and a young man at that instant addressing her by name, she bowed gracefully to the veteran, and turned towards him who spoke.
"Miss Hamilton, I claim your promise for this quadrille," said Lord Henry D'Este.
"Good bye," said Sir George.

"I shall claim you for my partner when I see you at home." "St.Eval dancing again.

Merciful powers! we certainly shall have the roof tumbling over our heads," exclaimed Lord Henry, as he and Caroline found themselves _vis a vis_ to the earl of whom he spoke.
"Why, is it so very extraordinary that a young man should dance ?" demanded Caroline.
"A philosopher as he is, decidedly.

You do not know him, Miss Hamilton.
He travelled all over Europe, I believe, really for the sake of improvement, instead of enjoying all the fun he might have had; he stored his brain with all sorts of knowledge, collecting material and stealing legends to write a book.

I went with him part of the way, but became so tired of my companion, that I turned recreant and fled, to enjoy a more spirited excursion of my own.