The things we do!

Though the Colonel may have read in his Pall Mall Gazette a paragraph
which announced an approaching MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE, "between a noble
young marquis and an accomplished and beautiful young lady, daughter and
sister of a Northern baronet," he did not know who were the fashionable
persons about to be made happy, nor, until he received a letter from an
old friend who lived at Paris, was the fact conveyed to him. Here is the
letter preserved by him along with all that he ever received from the
same hand:--
"Rue St. Dominique, St. Germain,
"Paris, 10 Fev.
"So behold you of return, my friend! you quit for ever the sword and
those arid plains where you have passed so many years of your life,
separated from those to whom, at the commencement, you held very nearly.
Did it not seem once as if two hands never could unlock, so closely were
they enlaced together? Ah, mine are old and feeble now; forty years have
passed since the time when you used to say they were young and fair.


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