Two young dragoon officers had approached during the fervid allocution, and after the salute to their superior, caught up chairs and stamped them down, thereupon calling for the loan of anybody's cigar-case.

Where it is that an Austrian officer ordinarily keeps this instrument so necessary to his comfort, and obnoxious, one would suppose, to the rigid correctness of his shapely costume, we cannot easily guess.

None can tell even where he stows away his pocket-handkerchief, or haply his purse.

However, these things appear on demand.

Several elongated cigar-cases were thrust forward, and then it was seen that the attire of the gallant youngsters was in disorder.
'Did you hunt her to earth ?' they were asked.
The reply trenched on philosophy; and consisted in an inquiry as to who cared for the whole basketful--of the like description of damsels, being implied.