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THE BARONET.
Sir Frank Random was an amiable young gentleman with--as the saying goes--all his goods in the shop window.

Fair-haired and tall, with a well-knit, athletic figure, a polished manner, and a man-of-the-world air, he strictly resembled the romantic officer of Bow Bells, Family Herald, Young Ladies' Journal fiction.

But the romance was all in his well-groomed looks, as he was as commonplace a Saxon as could be met with in a day's march.

Fond of sport, attentive to his duties as artillery captain, and devoted to what is romantically known as the fair sex, he sauntered easily through life, very well contented with himself and with his agreeable surroundings.