I had fled at the first sound of his discourse, and was talking with Strutt and Romilly, when behold! I saw Owen leave Mrs.Sheil and come towards us.

So I cried out "Sauve qui peut!" and we ran off.

But before we had got five feet from where we were standing, who should meet us face to face but Old Basil Montagu?
"Nay, then," said I, "the game is up.

The Prussians are on our rear.

If we are to be bored to death there is no help for it." Basil seized Romilly; Owen took possession of Strutt; and I was blessing myself on my escape, when the only human being worthy to make a third with such a pair, J--, caught me by the arm, and begged to have a quarter of an hour's conversation with me.