Jack Hinton, the Guardsman. with Illustr. by H.K. Browne (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: O'Grady, who at once broke into a fit of laughter at my ignorance; and I now learnt to my amazement that the Common Pleas had winged the Exchequer, that the attorney-general had pinked the Rolls, and, stranger than all, that the provost of the university himself had planted his man in the Phoenix. "It is just as well for us,"continued he in a whisper, "that the churchmen can't go out; for the dean yonder can snuff a candle at twenty paces, and is rather a hot-tempered fellow to boot. But come, now; his grace is about to rise. We have a field day to-morrow in the park, and break up somewhat earlier in consequence." As it was now near two o'clock, I could see nothing to cavil at as to the earliness of the hour; although I freely confess, tired and exhausted as I felt, I could not contemplate the moment of separation, without a sad foreboding that I ne'er should look upon the like again. The party rose at this moment, and the duke, shaking hands cordially with each person as he passed down, wished us all a good-night. I followed with O'Grady and some others of the household, but when I reached the antechamber, my new friend volunteered his services to see me to my quarters. On traversing the lower castle-yard, we mounted an old-fashioned and ricketty stair, which conducted to a gloomy, ill-lighted corridor. I was too much fatigued, however, to be critical at the moment; and so, having thanked O'Grady for all his kindness, I threw off my clothes hastily, and before my head was well upon the pillow was sound asleep. CHAPTER IV. THE RREAKFAST. There are few persons so unreflective as not to give way to a little self-examination, on waking, for the first time, in a strange place. The very objects about, are so many appeals to your ingenuity or to your memory, that you ...