He sent me a picture of our old school--the very actual thing, sir; the cloisters, the school, the head gown-boy going in with the rods, and the Doctor himself.

It would make you die of laughing!" He regaled the ladies of the regiment with Clive's letters, and those of Miss Honeyman, which contained an account of the boy.

He even bored some of his bearers with this prattle; and sporting young men would give or take odds that the Colonel would mention Clive's name, once before five minutes, three times in ten minutes, twenty-five times in the course of dinner, and so on.

But they who laughed at the Colonel laughed very kindly; and everybody who knew him, loved him; everybody, that is, who loved modesty, and generosity, and honour.
At last the happy time came for which the kind father had been longing more passionately than any prisoner for liberty, or schoolboy for holiday.

Colonel Newcome has taken leave of his regiment, leaving Major Tomkinson, nothing loth, in command.