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CONTAINS BARONIAL VIEWS OF THE PRESENT TIME.
Upon the word of honour of Rosamund, the letter to the officers of the French Guard was posted.
'Post it, post it,' Everard said, on her consulting him, with the letter in her hand.

'Let the fellow stand his luck.' It was addressed to the Colonel of the First Regiment of the Imperial Guard, Paris.

That superscription had been suggested by Colonel Halkett.

Rosamund was in favour of addressing it to Versailles, Nevil to the Tuileries; but Paris could hardly fail to hit the mark, and Nevil waited for the reply, half expecting an appointment on the French sands: for the act of posting a letter, though it be to little short of the Pleiades even, will stamp an incredible proceeding as a matter of business, so ready is the ardent mind to take footing on the last thing done.