SALES--MATTERS OF PRINCIPLE--MRS.

MINCHIN QUARRELS WITH THE BRIDE--MRS.
MINCHIN QUARRELS WITH EVERYBODY--MRS.

MINCHIN IS RECONCILED--THE VOYAGE HOME--A DEATH ON BOARD.
I only remember a little of our voyage home in the troop-ship, but I have heard so much of it, from the elder Buller girls and the ladies of the regiment, that I seem quite familiar with all that happened; and I hardly know now what I remember myself, and what has been recalled or suggested to me by hearing the other ladies talk.
There was no lack of subjects for talk when the news came that the regiment was ordered home.

As Aunt Theresa repeatedly remarked, "There are a great many things to be considered." And she considered them all day long--by word of mouth.
The Colonel (that is, the new Colonel)--he had just returned from leave in the hills--and his wife behaved rather shabbily, it was thought.
"But," as Mrs.Minchin said, "what could you expect?
They say she was the daughter of a wholesale draper in the City.

And trade in the blood always peeps out." We knew for certain that before there was a word said about the regiment going home, it had been settled that the Colonel's wife should go to England, where her daughters were being educated, and take the two youngest children with her.