You will find, when you join it in Spain, that--that my son-in-law"-- he hesitated and spoke the word with a certain prim deliberateness--"has been gazetted to an ensigncy in that gallant regiment.

I may tell you that he owes this to no intervention of mine, but solely to the generosity of Miss Belcher.

Before departing--I will do him so much justice--he spoke to me very frankly of his past, and for my daughter's sake and his father's I trust that, as under Providence you were an instrument in averting its consequences, so you may sound him yet to some action which, whether he lives or falls, may redeem it.

Mr.Rogers will sup with us to-night.

If I mistake not, I hear his wheels on the road." He drew himself up to his full height and bowed.