The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-01-02

warm enough in the prospect of what
was before him. There is no external
or internal application of a more calor-
ific tendency than the inevitable neces-
sity of doing particular disagreeable
piece of work at certain specified hour
near at hand. 1t makes the heart seethe
like cauldron, and the boiling blood is
sent bubbling through the veins.
The parade was over. The troops
were dismissed. ingram was moving
slowly towards the mess breakfast,
thinking of the duty that must follow
it, when he was aroused from his rev.
erie by hearing horse reined up sud-
denly by his side. 1t was Lord Percy
himself.
$50 Williams tells me, Ingram, that
you have something to say to me. Come
and breakfast with me, my boy, and
you will have the best of opportunities
to say it. shall be quite alone"
"It will give me infinite pleasure, my
lord, - replied Ingram, ''and 1 will be
with you Immediately"
GO Right, right" said his lordship,
punctuality at drills and at mess is
great military virtue. 1 shall expect
you in a.quarter of an hour"
With these words he cantered along
the frozen road (for it could hardly be
called street then) that led to his ex-
cellent quarters.
am afraid my hero lied, the least in
the world, when he said that it would
give him infinite pleasure to breakfast
| with his noble friend and commander.
Not that he had any fears as to the quail
ity of his breakfast or of his society; but
the thoughts. of the sauce which he
brought to both, plagued him in ad-
vance, and he wished that longer time
and a wider space could have elapsed be-
fore it was necessary to administer it,
But delay was useless and impossible, SO
he strobe toward the quarters of his host
with firm tread, and ascended the
long fight of steps that led to the house,
and gazed upon the trees and shrubs in
the court yard, all glittering with ice,
with as easy and careless an air as he
could assume. The breakfast room into
which he was shown, was spacious
wainscotted apartment, with low cell
ing, but an air of great comfort. A blaz-
ing fire of logs roared up the chimney,
and the breakfast-table, with all its ap-
pliances of luxury, was drawn into q
comfortable proximity it. The winters
sun looked brilliantly through two
windows of the room. Fresh plants
stood in the windows, and old pictures
looked down from the walls. 1t was
not Alnwick Castle, nor Lion House, tc
be sure, but it was a very inhabitable
place for all that. An older campaignel
than his lordship might have thought
himself well off in worse quarters.
In few minutes Lord Percy appear
ed, having exchanged his uniform Goa
for brocaded dressing-gown, and hi
military boots for Turkish slippers, and
after cordial welcome to his young
friend, rang the bell for breakfast. Th'
tray was brought; the coffee was pour
ed the eggs were cracked; the toas
was crunched. The'breakfast was dis
patched with the appetites of young
men sharpened by daybreak parade
with the thermometer at zero. Thei
discussions were confined to the goot
things before them, and the things Il
which they were naturally allied, unit
the table was cleared and the servant
withdrawn. Then Lord Percy, draw
ing his chair up to the fire, and, com
fortably nursing his left leg placed owe
hig right knee, turned to Ingram, will
an air of comic gravity.
"Well, my lad" thus his lordshil
opened the palaver, so you have some
what to say to me? Faith, thought a
much last night"
Last night, my lord !" exclaimed
the adjutant, 81 don't know that
} rightly apprehend your meaning
go, of course mott replied the earl
&" but you can hardly suppose that
failed to observe how carefully you fol
lowed my advice last evening. Yol
must not suppose that Cupid has ban
, daged all Our eyes rs effectually as b
seems to have doneyours."
All, yes - replied our hero, "you
lordship alludes to my little filtration
with Miss Clairmont. / was only FOL
: lowing your own advice TO fall in Low
with two or three at the same time
} But you know, my lord, that it is neces
J sary to begin with one. Now / begil
: with this one.n