may the noses of all respectable people be turned upside down and jackasses dance eternally upon their grandmothers' graves!" "Patricia!" cried a shocked colonel.

It was Roger Stapylton who told the colonel of this advent, as the very apex of jocularity.

And briefly he described how Lord Nick had gone up the hill, seen the colonel, come back, taken a horse litter, and gone up the hill again, while the populace of The Corner waited for a crash.

'A polite fox!' observed the colonel.

" "John," said his mother, with dignity, "your trifling is unseasonable; certainly Colonel Egerton is a more fitting person on every account, and I desire, under present circumstances, that you ask the colonel.

He did begin, and within half an hour Gordon, the town sergeant, thrust his head inside the door and called the colonel by name.

" "Indeed, madam!" replied the colonel, starting.

Bring the count with you; leave him at Boulogne; he knows the colonel of the ."

"But you don't mean to say," exclaimed the colonel in a voice of anguish, "that you are really going to marry her?" "Sir," said Mr Brandon, solemnly, "there is no way to get out of it.

'You'll be drowned, at least!' shouted the colonel, with an oath of Uncle Toby's own.

Still, I do not recollect that the Americans were in the latter, Beekmanyou told me nothing of that?" "They were not so near the royal forces, certainly, when I left Albany, sir," returned the colonel.

The following morning, Emily and Grace, declining the invitation to join the colonel and John in their usual rides, walked to the rectory, accompanied by Mrs. Wilson and Chatterton.

Bob will do well enough, and will very likely come out of this affair a lieutenant-colonel.

So!" murmured the colonel, a little taken aback.

And the usher stood it as long as he could, when he took the colonel by the collar and sat him down so quick he didn't come to for a couple of minutes, and when the colonel got his senses, and found that the usher had ushered him into a seat between two gaily decorated colored women the trouble began.

When I reached the colonel, I gave a sigh of relief; it seemed to me that I was less alone; we would die together, and this death shared by both of us no longer terrified me.

Sir John was immediately commissioned a colonel in the British service; he raised two battalions of Loyalists called the Johnson Greens, and declared himself the bitterest and most implacable enemy of the Americans.

But the Green Mountain Boys declared they would follow no colonels but their own; and so Arnold, after being threatened with arrest, was appointed something like chief of the staff, on the understanding that he would make himself generally useful with the boats.

"If that's all, I can fix you up and send you back with enough to carry the colonel along.

As to the woman who had met the colonel, he said that he did not know her name.

Yesterday, Thursday, I invited to my table five Colonels of the garrison of Paris, and the whim seized me to question each one by himself.

"I have found it so," remarked the colonel, and lighted a cigarette.

I remember an American colonel who had been through the whole Mexican war, saying to me one day, "I assure you the Mexican troops are the most contemptible soldiers in the world; I would rather a thousand to one face them than half the number of Camanche Indians.

For meritorious conduct at Cerro Gordo, he was made brevet major; for the same at Contreras and Cherubusco, brevet lieutenant-colonel; and, after Chapultepec, he received the additional brevet of coloneldistinctions fairly earned by energy and courage.

A troop of horse refused to obey their colonel; and, instead of marching out of the city, took possession of the colours.