If he and Miss Gwynne will go on, you can drive back for me, and I shall be in time for the ball.

Beg them to make my excuses to Lady Mary Nugent, and explain how it is.

You are quite right.

It has bled tremendously; but I shall stop it as soon as I get to my room.' It need not be said that the concluding portion of Colonel Vaughan's speech was addressed to a servant, who came in search of him with the intelligence that the carriage was waiting, and his master ready.

He managed to get to his room, however, unperceived, where we will leave him to dress and recover himself at his leisure..