As it is, I've often a mind to have the superannuated vagabond drummed out of the corps." Although this resume of Mr.Brock's character and accomplishments was very just, it came perhaps with an ill grace from Count Gustavus Adolphus Maximilian, who had profited by all his qualities, and who certainly would never have given this opinion of them had he known that the door of his dining-parlour was open, and that the gallant Corporal, who was in the passage, could hear every syllable that fell from the lips of his commanding officer.

We shall not say, after the fashion of the story-books, that Mr.Brock listened with a flashing eye and a distended nostril; that his chest heaved tumultuously, and that his hand fell down mechanically to his side, where it played with the brass handle of his sword.

Mr.Kean would have gone through most of these bodily exercises had he been acting the part of a villain enraged and disappointed like Corporal Brock; but that gentleman walked away without any gestures of any kind, and as gently as possible.

"He'll turn me out of the regiment, will he ?" says he, quite piano; and then added (con molta espressione), "I'll do for him." And it is to be remarked how generally, in cases of this nature, gentlemen stick to their word..