The Colonel first broke silence: 'So you intend to give up this poor young fellow at the first brush ?' 'Who, I ?' replied the Counsellor.

'I will not give up one hair of his head, though I should follow them to the court of last resort in his behalf; but what signified mooting points and showing one's hand to that old ass?
Much better he should report to his prompter, Glossin, that we are indifferent or lukewarm in the matter.

Besides, I wished to have a peep at the enemies' game.' 'Indeed!' said the soldier.

'Then I see there are stratagems in law as well as war.

Well, and how do you like their line of battle ?' 'Ingenious,' said Mr.Pleydell, 'but I think desperate; they are finessing too much, a common fault on such occasions.' During this discourse the carriage rolled rapidly towards Woodbourne without anything occurring worthy of the reader's notice, excepting their meeting with young Hazlewood, to whom the Colonel told the extraordinary history of Bertram's reappearance, which he heard with high delight, and then rode on before to pay Miss Bertram his compliments on an event so happy and so unexpected.
We return to the party at Woodbourne.