"Well! let's see! You must have superintended a course of instruction in the goose-step in your day ?" "Rather so!" said he.

"Very well, then.

You are Instructor in Military Exercises in her B.M.

Forces! You are all right! Come along!" And if I had said that he was Trumpeter Major of the 600th Regiment in the British Army, it would doubtless have been equally all right.

So said, so done! And I see his bewildered look now, as the four huge volumes, about a load for a porter, to which he had become entitled, together with medals and documents of many kinds, were put into his arms.
Ah! those were pleasant days! And while Italy, under the wing of science, was plotting her independence, I was busy in forging the chains of that dependence which was to be a more unmixed source of happiness to me, than the independence which Italy was compassing has yet proved to her.
Those chains, however, as regarded at all events the outward and visible signs of them, had not got forged yet.