I heard, casually from my friend, Mrs Merryweather, that he had left them and gone to college; what college, she did not say.

For some years I had quite enough of painful duty to perform to make me forget the weeks passed in his society, and their termination; or to think of a person of whom I had quite lost sight.

About six or seven years ago, however, I heard of him, strange to say, through my sister.

I had, of course, told her of his proposal and my refusal.
'She and her husband were among the early settlers at Melbourne, and in the course of time became tolerably prosperous.

He, you know, was obliged to leave his regiment for drunkenness, and contrary to the usual course of things, became steadier, though not steady, in Australia.