He has a heart, and a kind one, Colonel Talbot, you may say what you please.

He took a sheet of paper, and wrote the pass with his own hand.

"I will not-trust myself with my council," he said "they will argue me out of what is right.

I will not endure that a friend, valued as I value you, should be loaded with the painful reflections which must afflict you in ease of further misfortune in Colonel Talbot's family; nor will I keep a brave enemy a prisoner under such circumstances.
Besides," said he, "I think I can justify myself to my prudent advisers, by pleading the good effect such lenity will produce on the minds of the great English families with whom Colonel Talbot is connected."' 'There the politician peeped out,' said the Colonel.
'Well, at least he concluded like a king's son--"Take the passport; I have added a condition for form's sake; but if the Colonel objects to it, let him depart without giving any parole whatever.

I come here to war with men, but not to distress or endanger women."' 'Well, I never thought to have been so much indebted to the Pretend--' 'To the Prince,' said Waverley, smiling.
'To the Chevalier,' said the Colonel; 'it is a good travelling name, and which we may both freely use.