As for me, my affairs go on well: I've had half-a-dozen quarrels with Inez, but we parted good friends, and my bad Portuguese has got me out of all difficulties with papa, who pressed me tolerably close as to fortune.

I shall want your assistance in this matter yet.

If parchments will satisfy him, I think I could get up a qualification; but somehow the matter must be done, for I'm resolved to have his daughter.
The orderly is starting, so no more till we meet.
Yours ever, FRED POWER.
"Godwin," said I, as I closed the letter, "I find myself in a scrape at headquarters; you are to take the command of the detachment, for I must set out at once." "Nothing serious, I hope.

O'Malley ?" "Oh, no; nothing of consequence.

A most absurd blunder of my rascally servant." "The Irish fellow yonder ?" "The same." "He seems to take it easily, however." "Oh, confound him! he does not know what trouble he has involved me in; not that he'll care much when he does." "Why, he does not seem to be of a very desponding temperament.