13/22 Not much harm in it. In proportion as he grew aware of the unnecessary nervous agitation into which the drum was throwing him, he assumed an air of repose, and said to Wilfrid: "Read the paper to-day ?" and to Arabella, "Quiet family dinner, I suppose ?" "Yes, sir," he remarked to Mr.Barrett, as if resuming an old conversation: "I dare say, you've seen better marching in foreign parts. Ha! ha! And not so bad, not so bad, I call it! with their right--left; right--left. |