As soon as this affair spreads abroad, you will be the object of general remark and attention.

You have rendered the regiment to which you belong proud of you, its junior ensign, and made Paris emphatically too hot to hold you.
"If all this is done before you are seventeen, what may we expect when another ten years have passed over your head ?" "You had better wait for the ten years to pass, O'Neil," Desmond laughed; "by which time, perhaps, you and O'Sullivan will both have learned wisdom, and will see that, because a man happens to have gone through a very exciting adventure without discredit, it by no means proves him to be anything in the smallest degree out of the way.".