for this mere of a wretched old uncle whose very name he wished to forget the boy s christian name even was an and an irony for it implied hereditary force and brilliancy to which he plainly would never attain the consolation of real was always left him certainly but he could not help groaning to himself why s lady cannot a son be one s own and somebody else s likewise the was shortly afterwards in the neighborhood of and met him and eyed his noble countenance the next day when was in his study somebody knocked at the door who s there i ll thee you young say only a poor commonplace his father why didn t you have a voice like the i saw yesterday he continued as the lad came in why haven t you his looks and a way of commanding as if you d done it for centuries � hey why how can you expect it father when not related to him i then you ought to be growled his father as the paused the surgeon the colonel the historian the spark and others exclaimed that such subtle and instructive studies as this now that was so much in demand were precisely the tales they desired as members of a scientific club and begged the master to tell another curious mental delusion the shook his head and feared he was not genteel enough to tell another story with a a op noble sufficiently moral tone to it to suit the club he would prefer to leave the next to a better man the colonel had fallen into reflection true it was he observed that the more dreamy and impulsive nature of woman within her fancies which often started her on strange tracks only to abandon them in sharp at the of her common sense � sometimes with ludicrous events which had caused a lady s action to set in a particular direction might continue to enforce the same line of conduct while she like a would start on a sudden in a contrary course and end where she began the vice president laughed and applauded the colonel adding that there surely a story somewhere behind that sentiment if he were not much mistaken the colonel fixed his face to a good narrative pose and went on without further dame the seventh s by the colonel it was in the time of the great civil war � if i should not rather as a loyal subject call it with the great rebellion it was i say at that unhappy period of our history that towards the autumn of a particular year the parliament forces sat down before castle with over seven thousand foot and four pieces of cannon the castle as we all know was in that century owned and occupied by one of the of and for his assistance by a certain noble who commanded the king s troops in these parts the said earl as well as the young lord his eldest son were away from home just now raising forces for the king elsewhere but there were present in the castle when the arrived before it the son s fair wife lady and her servants together with some friends and near relatives of her husband a group of noble and the defence was so good and well considered that they anticipated no great danger the forces were also commanded by a noble lord � for the nobility were by no means at this stage of the war all on the king s side � and it had been observed during his approach in the night time and in the morning when the took place that he appeared sad and much depressed the truth was that by a strange of destiny it had come to pass that the he was set to reduce was the home of his own sister whom he had tenderly loved during her and whom he loved now in spite of the which had resulted from with her husband s family he believed too that notwithstanding this cruel division she still was sincerely attached to him his hesitation to point his at the walls was inexplicable to those who were strangers to his family history he remained in the field on the north side of the castle called by his name to this day because of his there till it occurred to him to send a messenger to his sister with a letter in which he earnestly requested her as she valued her life to steal out of the place by the little gate to the south and make away in that direction to the residence of some friends shortly after he saw to his great surprise coming from the front of the castle walls a lady on horseback with a single attendant she rode lady straight forward into the field and up the slope to where his army and tents were spread it was not till she got quite near that he discerned her to be his sister and much was he alarmed that she should have run such risk as to sally out in the face of his forces without knowledge of their proceedings when at any moment their first discharge might have burst forth to her own destruction in such exposure she dismounted before she was quite close to him and he saw that her familiar face though pale was not at all tearful as it would have been in their younger days indeed if the particulars as handed down are to be believed he was in a more tearful state than she in his anxiety about her he called her into his tent out of the gaze of those around for though many of the soldiers were honest and serious minded men he could not bear that she who had been his dear companion in childhood should be exposed to curious observation in this her 