The waistcoat was of toilenet, a pretty piece, the trousers of fine kerseymere, and the coat sat extraordinarily well.

Altogether, when I beheld this changeling in the glass, I kissed my hand to him.
'My dear fellow,' said I, 'have you no scent ?' 'Good God, no!' cried Ronald.

'What do you want with scent ?' 'Capital thing on a campaign,' said I.

'But I can do without.' I was now led, with the same precautions against noise, into the little bow-windowed dining-room of the cottage.

The shutters were up, the lamp guiltily turned low; the beautiful Flora greeted me in a whisper; and when I was set down to table, the pair proceeded to help me with precautions that might have seemed excessive in the Ear of Dionysius.
'She sleeps up there,' observed the boy, pointing to the ceiling; and the knowledge that I was so imminently near to the resting-place of that gold eyeglass touched even myself with some uneasiness.
Our excellent youth had imported from the city a meat pie, and I was glad to find it flanked with a decanter of really admirable wine of Oporto.
While I ate, Ronald entertained me with the news of the city, which had naturally rung all day with our escape: troops and mounted messengers had followed each other forth at all hours and in all directions; but according to the last intelligence no recapture had been made.