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"And then to think of the sad change that has befallen you! To subside
from an eagle-feathered Sachem, eating succatash with an Indian
Princess, into a tame civilized gentleman, in a swallow-tailed coat,
handing apples to a poor little Yankee girl! I do not wonder you were
melancholy and tried to shoot yourself."

"It was the most fortunate shot I ever made, since"--

"I am not sure of that. Perhaps if you had succeeded you might have
been transmigrated back into the wigwam, and resumed your addresses to
the Princess."

"Your fancy outstrips mine. I find it hard, by the side of a real
Princess, to think of an imaginary one."

"Faithless, like all your fickle sex. Ah me, poor princess!"

Here Mrs. Bernard made a motion to rise, which was followed by the
other ladies, and as Anne turned away she said:--

"You who have set me an example of desertion can not be surprised
at my leaving you, which please to consider a punishment for the
Princess' wrongs."

"And a severe one," said Pownal.

But a short time elapsed before the ladies were rejoined by the
gentlemen in the withdrawing room, where we will leave them to look
after some other friends of ours.

Upon the conclusion of his duties, Felix had opportunity to extend the
rights of hospitality to General Ransome, who, true to his promise,
had not failed to make his appearance in due time in the kitchen.
There the worthy warrior had been received with all customary forms of
politeness by Miss Rosa, and, installed in a high-back chair, awaited
his share of the entertainment. And when the time arrived, seated
between his friends, and opposite two other servants, there were few,
if any, lighter and more careless hearts that day than the General's.
And of the whole company it may be said, that if they were not
refined, they were at least merry.

"Ladies and genlmn," said the General, soon after the repast had
commenced, and seeming to think the toasts could not begin too soon,
"do me de satisfacshum to fill you glasses. Wid you leave I'm going to
gib a toast."

On this day it was customary to extend an unusual degree of license to
the servants, and hence there was no lack of generous liquors on the
board, of the same descriptions as those drank by their superiors. And
to do them justice, it was seldom the privilege was abused.

The glasses were quickly filled, and the General proposed "de healt'
ob de fair sec." This was drunk with acclamation, and a gentleman