Anyhow, I am glad you are not old enough.
I don't mean that I should not like to have you with us, but then there would be nobody at home with mother.

Now, if anything happens to father and me, she has got you, and as you grow up you will be able to look after her, and take care of her.

It is bad enough for her having two of us in the war.

It would be worse, still, if there were three." As, the next evening, Walter heard that there was news that William's troops had not yet moved from the Boyne, he thought that it was safe to take the direct road through Dublin.

He had laid aside his uniform, on reaching home, and in the morning started in his civilian clothes, with the uniform in the valise, strapped behind the saddle.