And so, if we never meet again, let us think well of each other.

Go, my boy; serve your king and your country!" "I will do my best, Sir Miles, if only to merit your kindness." "Stay a moment: you are intimate, I find, with young Mainwaring ?" "An old college friendship, Sir Miles." "The army will not do for him, eh ?" "He is too clever for it, sir." "Ah, he'd make a lawyer, I suppose,--glib tongue enough, and can talk well; and lie, if he's paid for it ?" "I don't know how lawyers regard those matters, Sir Miles; but if you don't make him a lawyer, I am sure you must leave him an honest man." "Really and truly--" "Upon my honour I think so." "Good-day to you, and good luck.

You must catch the coach at the lodge; for I see by the papers that, in spite of all the talk about peace, they are raising regiments like wildfire." With very different feelings from those with which he had entered the room, Ardworth quitted it.

He hurried into his own chamber to thrust his clothes into his portmanteau, and while thus employed, Mainwaring entered.
"Joy, my dear fellow, wish me joy! I am going to town,--into the army; abroad; to be shot at, thank Heaven! That dear old gentleman! Just throw me that coat, will you ?" A very few more words sufficed to explain what had passed to Mainwaring.
He sighed when his friend had finished: "I wish I were going with you!" "Do you?
Sir Miles has only got to write another letter to the Horse Guards.

But no, you are meant to be something better than food for powder; and, besides, your Lucretia! Hang it, I am sorry I cannot stay to examine her as I had promised; but I have seen enough to know that she certainly loves you.