This is not a story, it is rather a fragment, beginning where usually a battle story ends, with a man being "casualtied," showing the principal character only in a passive parta very passive partand ending, I am afraid, with a lot of unsatisfactory loose ends ungathered up.

But youth, sir, is not my only crime; I have been accused of acting a theatrical parta theatrical part may either imply some peculiarities of gesture, or a dissimulation of my real sentiments, and an adoption of the opinions and language of another man.

That I should in his Heroine's robes be dress'd, My fears were with my vanity at strife, How I could act that untried parta "Wife.