When Havelock came from the Residency to meet the troops the men flocked round him cheering, and their enthusiasm brought tears to the veteran's eyes.

The old veteran's early fondness for his nephew revived in full force, and his enjoyment was alloyed only by the dread of a new separation.

"Why Sergeant, how are you?" said Bellew, gripping the veteran's hand.

gunpowder"the reader will understand none knew of the veteran's death but those in the house"and won't be for givin' up while he has a charge left.

But our friend Narayan Singh was in the hospital, enjoying the wise veteran's prerogative of resting on full pay after his strenuous adventures along with us at Abu Kem.

In all its splendours decked, o'er the full bowl Recount my triumphs past, urge others on 120 With hand and voice, and point the winding way: Pleased with that social sweet garrulity, The poor disbanded veteran's sole delight.

So long as Lesbia was under that astute veteran's wing there could be no danger.

It was Ascot week, the crowning glory of the year, and Lesbia and her chaperon had secured tickets for the Royal enclosureor it may be said rather that Lesbia had secured themfor the Master of the Royal Buckhounds might have omitted poor old Lady Kirkbank's familiar name from his list if it had not been for that lovely girl who went everywhere under the veteran's wing.

Lieutenant Claflin nodded to Corporal Goddard at the door of the recruiting-office, and startled that veteran's rigidity, and kept his cotton-gloved hand at his visor longer than the Regulations required, by saying, "Wish you merry Christmas," as he jumped up the stairs.

In his prosperous days he had built country villas for actresses and attended many a joyous house-warming, the fun and frolic of which were still fresh in the light-hearted veteran's memory.

Monsieur Tudesco stopped short and smiled, his hair flying, his eye moist, his arms thrown open as if to embrace and bless; then he resumed: "I say it: the laugh of innocence is the ill-starred veteran's joy.

"You 'ear, now," he said, looking round with a veteran's contempt upon the squad of recruits in pauperism, "if none on yer don't break out with somethink before the week's over, I'll flay the lot.

At the conclusion of the interview, Douglas, who was unable to utter a word, grasped convulsively the aged veteran's hand and left the hall.

Even the veteran's satisfaction, since the laying aside of steel armor, is not much, to be sure, or is gathered after the battle.

The prattler had stirred, in the veteran's breast, The embers of fire that had long been at rest.

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In the king's harshness there was something more than ungrateful forgetfulness of a veteran's ancient services.

The officers possibly were a trifle diffident and uncertain; they had not yet the veteran's manner.

There was no mark of his calling about him anywhere, save a little Red Axe sewed upon his left breast like a war veteran's decoration.

" Entering playfully into the veteran's humour, Mrs. Hamilton took his arm and returned to the ball-room, where she was speedily joined by her husband, who welcomed Sir George Wilmot with as much warmth and cordiality as his wife had done, and as soon as the quadrille was finished, a glance from her mother brought Caroline and her partner, Lord Alphingham, to her side.

It is a strange sight to see, when so old a man, in faded uniform, with a scarred veteran's face, suddenly bursts into tears.