"In answer to your first, I may say that under the circumstances there was some credit for being merry.

It happened at a deuced bad time, but Sir Thomas took his defeat manfully, while those animated volcanoes, Hawley and Markham were wonderfully passive--a fact we must attribute to Major McNair.

The general melee and pow-wow in which I was so unceremoniously toasted, taught a lesson.

Jove, the Major is entitled to an order if he can, by any means, reclaim any of the 52nd.

But the most amusing of the crowd is Trevelyan, who reminds me of an Englishman in Paris.