it and perhaps through your one or both of na will he killed yes but we need not trouble onr heads that � the undertake everything i have no pistols if you will do me honor to use one of mine it shall be thank yon to morrow morning no i have four days painting to do on my picture i can t ie till it is finished friday mom he is mad i to ask you a question you will excuse my have you any idea what we are agreeing to about gaily the does jou little credit my lord that is to add insult to wrong he went off hurriedly leaving lord he thought was somehow connected with it but no wrong he felt little dis by those e to fight simply bow load and get called at hia instead of taking down of and their poor brains to find out whether they are game or and why as for he hurried home in a fever of passion begged his mother s pardon and ed himself foe ever having her on account of such a creature as he then told her what be had seen as distance and had presented it to him to his the old lady him short les said she there is no need to take the girl s character away she has but one � she is not in the same class of life as you and such marriages always lead to y but in other respects she is a worthy young woman � don t speak against her character or jou will make my flesh creep t know what her character is to a woman high or by this moderation she held him still faster friday morning arrived had by hard finished ills picture his from nature which were numerous left by everything to his mother and was or rather felt as ready to he had hardly spoken a word or eaten a meal these four days ills mother was in anxiety about him he rose early and went down to an hour later his mother finding him gone out rose and went to at meantime had entirely recovered but his sister s color had left her cheeks and the boy swore vengeance against the cause of her dis on morning then there paced on sands two figures one was lord the other seemed a gentleman who having swallowed the mess room and found it insufficient had added the of his company the more his reflected on the less inclined he had felt to invite a young dog from to such a he had therefore ordered to get np as a field or some such trifle and what have called was result the painter was also in sight whilst he was coming up loi d wm on a point on that worthy had always thought himself veiy superior to hia master � gentlemanly now mind and behave like or wc shall bo found i trust my lord my conduct � what i mean is you must not be gentleman as gentleman like as all that it could not be borne c est and a white handkerchief is like and nobody ties a white handkerchief so well as that of all the vices perfection is the most intolerable his then touched with his cane the s de countenance straightway fell as though he had lost successive came up they saluted where is second sir the my second said ah i i foi t to wake him � does it mat it is merely a custom said lord with a very manner said lie do us the honor to the ground and be everybody s second measured the ground and handed ft pistol to each and struck an attitude by are you ready gen said this jack o both yes i said both just as the signal was about to he an oa occurred i beg yon pardon air said lord to his i am going to take a � a great liberty with you but i think you will find is only at half cock thank you my lord what am i to do witli the draw back the cock so and be ready to fire i cried mr oh i i m a dead man the general said after a of anxiety give no concern sir said he soothingly to his � a mere � mr s pistol me mv lord � load ms pistol directly said his sternly aud behave like my lord i lord but shall to be safe behind me the of division advanced reluctantly for s pistol no my lord said it is plain i am not lit i hut expose myself � and my mother has separated us i lost her � if you do not win her some worse man may but i if yon are a man use her tenderly whom sir do not make her regret me too much was my treasure my consolation � was to be my wife she would have cheered the road of life � it is a desert now i loved � i � i � hero the poor fellow choked lord turned round aud threw his pistol to catch that on tlie contrary by a single motion chained his person from a straight line to a line parallel with the a surface and weapon sang his then a noble defiance of etiquette walked up to his and gave him bis hand with a motion no one could resist for he felt for poor fellow it is ail a mistake said he there is no between la and me but mutual esteem i will the whole thing admire her for her virtue her wit her innocence her goodness and all that sort of thing and she what sees in me i am i don t know added he slightly hia aristocratic shoulders do me the honor ix breakfast with me 