He was a friend of His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, and is intimately known to the Duke of Wellington, and some of the first officers of our army.

He has met my uncle Arthur at Lord Hill's, he thinks.

His own family is one of the most ancient and respectable in Ireland, and indeed is as good as our own.

The Costigans were kings of Ireland." "Why, God bless my soul," shrieked out the Doctor, hardly knowing whether to burst with rage or laughter, "you don't mean to say you want to marry her ?" Pen put on his most princely air.

"What else, Dr.Portman," he said, "do you suppose would be my desire ?" Utterly foiled in his attack, and knocked down by this sudden lunge of Pen's, the Doctor could only gasp out, "Mrs.Pendennis, ma'am, send for the Major." "Send for the Major?
with all my heart," said Arthur Prince of Pendennis and Grand Duke of Fairoaks, with a most superb wave of the hand.