CHAPTER VI.
PERCY GODOLPHIN THE GUEST OF SAVILLE .-- HE ENTERS THE LIFE-GUARDS AND BECOMES THE FASHION.
"And so," said Saville, laughing, "you really gave them the slip: excellent! But I envy you your adventures with the player folk.

'Gad! if I were some years younger, I would join them myself; I should act Sir Pertinax Macsycophant famously; I have a touch of the mime in me.

Well! but what do you propose to do ?--live with me ?--eh!" "Why, I think that might be the best, and certainly it would be the pleasantest mode of passing my life.

But----" "But what ?" "Why, I can scarcely quarter myself on your courtesy; I should soon grow discontented.

So I shall write to my father, whom I, kindly and considerately, by the way, informed of my safety the very first day of my arrival at B----.