However, he sometimes made exceptions to his general rule in favour of persons who peculiarly pleased him, and Lord Colambre was of this number.
He this evening, for the first time, spoke to his lordship of the years he had spent in the Austrian service; told him anecdotes of the emperor; spoke of many distinguished public characters whom he had known abroad; of those officers who had been his friends and companions.

Among others he mentioned, with particular regard, a young English officer who had been at the same time with him in the Austrian service, a gentleman of the name of Reynolds.

The name struck Lord Colambre; it was the name of the officer who had been the cause of the disgrace of Miss St.Omar--of Miss Nugent's mother.

'But there are so many Reynoldses.' He eagerly asked the age--the character of this officer.
'He was a gallant youth,' said the count, 'but too adventurous--too rash.

He fell, after distinguishing himself in a glorious manner, in his twentieth year--died in my arms.' 'Married or unmarried ?' cried Lord Colambre.
'Married--he had been privately married, less than a year before his death, to a very young English lady, who had been educated at a convent in Vienna.