'They tell me that while you were facing the enemy, temporarily attaching yourself to one of the regiments--I forget which, though I have heard it named--you sprang out under fire on an eagle clawing a hare.

I like that.

I hope you had the benefit of the hare.

She is our property, and I have issued an injunction that she shall not go into the newspapers.' Everard was entirely of a contrary opinion concerning the episode of eagle and hare, though it was a case of a bird of prey interfering with an object of the chase.

Nevil wrote home most entreatingly and imperatively, like one wincing, begging him to contradict that and certain other stories, and prescribing the form of a public renunciation of his proclaimed part in them.