Well, after hearing so much of you on paper, I'm deuced glad to meet you in the flesh.

Come into the light, if you can call it light, and let me have a look at you." Godfrey stepped beneath the dirty pane and was contemplated through an eyeglass by this breezy old gentleman, who exclaimed presently: "You're all right, I think; a fine figure of a young man, not bad looking, either, but you want drilling.

Why the devil don't you go into the army ?" "I don't know," answered Godfrey, "never thought of it.

Are you in the army, Sir ?" "No, not now, though I was.

Commanded my regiment for five years, and then kicked out with the courtesy title of Major-General.