His nephew, I hear, was at the wappenschaw to-day, and gained the popinjay, which does not look like a fanatic.

I should think they are all gone to bed long since, and an alarm at this time of night might kill the poor old man." "Well," rejoined the leader, "if that be so, to search the house would be lost time, of which we have but little to throw away.

Gentlemen of the Life-Guards, forward--March!" A few notes on the trumpet, mingled with the occasional boom of the kettle-drum, to mark the cadence, joined with the tramp of hoofs and the clash of arms, announced that the troop had resumed its march.

The moon broke out as the leading files of the column attained a hill up which the road winded, and showed indistinctly the glittering of the steel-caps; and the dark figures of the horses and riders might be imperfectly traced through the gloom.

They continued to advance up the hill, and sweep over the top of it in such long succession, as intimated a considerable numerical force.
When the last of them had disappeared, young Morton resumed his purpose of visiting his guest.