4/29 I was intended, I fear, for a subaltern. Yet we have all something to command, Mr.Fritz, if it be only our own temper; and a man about to marry must look closely to himself. The husband's, like the prince's, is a very artificial standing; and it is hard to be kind in either. Do you follow that ?' 'O yes, I follow that,' replied the young man, sadly chop-fallen over the nature of the information he had elicited; and then brightening up: 'Is it,' he ventured, 'is it for an arsenal that you have bought the farm ?' 'We'll see about that,' the Prince answered, laughing. |