5/17 But come and see our assembly-rooms, literary institute, baths, etc., etc .-- that is what we are urging forward now." "But may I not go first and look for my strange namesake? Call fifty times, but you will get no answer. However, it is not a very great round, and you will understand my plans more clearly. Step out, my dear, as if you had got a troop of Mexicans after you. Ah, what a fine turn for that lot now!" He was thinking of the war which had broken out, and the battle of Bull's Run. |