He pored over the journals in perplexity, and talked of his indignation nightly to his pretty partners at balls, who knew not they were lesser Andromedas of his dear Andromeda country, but danced and chatted and were gay, and said they were sure he would defend them.

The men he addressed were civil.

They listened to him, sometimes with smiles and sometimes with laughter, but approvingly, liking the lad's quick spirit.

They were accustomed to the machinery employed to give our land a shudder and to soothe it, and generally remarked that it meant nothing.

His uncle Everard, and his uncle's friend Stukely Culbrett, expounded the nature of Frenchmen to him, saying that they were uneasy when not periodically thrashed; it would be cruel to deny them their crow beforehand; and so the pair of gentlemen pooh-poohed the affair; agreeing with him, however, that we had no great reason to be proud of our appearance, and the grounds they assigned for this were the activity and the prevalence of the ignoble doctrines of Manchester--a power whose very existence was unknown to Mr.Beauchamp.He would by no means allow the burden of our national disgrace to be cast on one part of the nation.