so soon a changed man he ll never many several girls have been mentioned in connection with his name i am sorry for oh but you needn t be they are matched she s only one more she s one more and more still she has regularly caught him she is a bom player of the game of hearts and she knew how to beat him in his own if there is one woman in the town who has any chance of holding her own and marrying him she is that woman this was true as it turned out by natural had from the first entered heart and soul into military romance as exhibited in the plots and characters of those living of it who came under her notice from her earliest young womanhood however promising had no chance of winning her interest if the meanest warrior were within the horizon it may be that the position of her uncle s house which was her home at the comer of west street nearest the the daily passing of the troops the constant blowing of trumpet calls a from the windows coupled with the fact that she knew nothing of the inner realities of military life and hence it had also helped her mind s original bias for thinking men at arms the only ones worthy of a woman s heart captain was a typical prize one whom all maidens had ached for for wept for had by her judicious management become subdued to her purpose and in addition to the of marrying the man she loved had the joy of feeling herself hated by the mothers of au the girls of the neighbourhood the man in the went to the wedding not as a guest for at this time he was but slightly acquainted with the parties but mainly because the church was a changed man dose to his house partly too for a reason which moved many others to be spectators of the ceremony a that though the couple might be happy in their experiences there was sufficient possibility of their being otherwise to colour the of an with a pleasing pathos of conjecture he could on occasion do a pretty stroke of in those days and he the tune of waiting by on a blank page of his prayer book a few lines which though kept private then may be given here � at a hasty wedding u hours be the twain are for now they solace swift desire by ties that zest if hours be years the twain are do eastern slope never west nor pallid ashes follow fire if hours be years the twain are for now they solace swift desire as if however to all the couple seemed to find in marriage the secret of the of a courtship which on s side at least had opened without serious intent during the winter following they were the most popular pair in and about � nay in south itself no smart dinner in the country houses of the younger and families within driving distance of the was complete without their lively presence mrs was the of the whirling figures at the county ball and when followed that inevitable incident of garrison town life an amateur dramatic entertainment it was just the same the acting was for the benefit of such and such an excellent charity � nobody cared what provided the play were played � and both captain and his wife were in the piece having been in fact by mutual consent the of the performance and so with a changed man laughter and and movement all merrily there was a little in the bill paying of the couple but in justice to them it must be added that sooner or later all were paid ill at the chapel of ease attended by the troops there arose above the edge of the pulpit one sunday an face this was the face of a new he placed upon the desk not the familiar sermon book but merely a bible the person who tells these things was not present at that service but he soon learnt that the young was nothing less than a great surprise to his congregation a mixed one always for though occupied the body of the building its and comers were crammed with whom up to the present even the least would have described as being attracted thither less by the services than by the now there arose a second reason for into an already church the and gentle eloquence of mr like a charm upon those accustomed only to the higher and of preaching and for a time the other churches of the town were of their at this point in the nineteenth century the sermon was the sole reason for amongst a vast body of religious people the was a formal preliminary which like the royal in a court of had to be got through before the real interest began and on home the question was simply who preached and how did he handle his subject even had an in the service proper nobody would have cared much about what was said or sung people who had formerly attended in the morning only began to go in the evening and even to the special addresses in the afternoon a changed man one day when captain entered his wife s drawing room filled with hired furniture she thought he was somebody else for he had not come upstairs humming the most catching air afloat in musical circles or in his usual careless way what s the matter jack she said without looking up from a note she was writing well � not much that i know but there is she as she wrote why � this new in a sheet � i mean the new parson he wants us to stop the on sunday looked up aghast why it is the one thing 