"We crave your pardon.

Mr.
Trist--" So now I took the lady's sunshade from her hand, and we two, making adieux, passed down the shaded walk toward the avenue.
"You are a good cavalier," she said to me.

"I find you not so fat as Mr.
Pakenham, nor so thin as Mr.Calhoun.My faith, could you have seen that gentleman this morning in a wrapper--and in a red worsted nightcap!" "But what did you determine ?" I asked her suddenly.

"What has my chief said to cause you to fail poor Mr.Pakenham as you did?
I pitied the poor man, in such a grueling, and wholly without warning!" "Monsieur is droll," she replied evasively.

"As though I had changed! I will say this much: I think Sir Richard will care more for Mexico and less for Mexicans after this! But you do not tell me when you are coming to see me, to bring back my little shoe.