but you choose
to join my enemies, and when I am in trouble you say you will leave me.
That is why I have been hurt: that is why I have been cold. I thought
I might count on your friendship--and--and you can tell whether I was
right or no. I relied on you as on a brother, and you come and tell me
you will resign. Be it so! Being embarked in this contest, by God's will
I will see it to an end. You are not the first, Mr. Warrington, has left
me on the way.'

"He spoke with so much tenderness, and as he spoke his face wore such a
look of unhappiness, that an extreme remorse and pity seized me, and I
called out I know not what incoherent expressions regarding old times,
and vowed that if he would say the word, I never would leave him. You
never loved him, George," says my brother, turning to me, "but I did
beyond all mortal men; and, though I am not clever like you, I think my
instinct was in the right. He has a greatness not approached by other
men"

"I don't say no, brother," said I, "now."

"Greatness, pooh!" says the parson, growling over his wine.

"We walked into Mrs. Washington's tea-room arm-in-arm," Hal resumed;
"she looked up quite kind, and saw we were friends. 'Is it all over,
Colonel Harry?' she whispered. 'I know he has applied ever so often
about your promotion----'

"'I never will take it,' says I. And that is how I came to do penance,"
says Harry, telling me the story, "with Lafayette the next winter." (Hal
could imitate the Frenchman very well.) "'I will go weez heem,' says I.
'I know the way to Quebec, and when we are not in action with Sir Guy, I
can hear his Excellency the Major-General say his lesson.' There was no
fight, you know we could get no army to act in Canada, and returned to
headquarters; and what do you think disturbed the Frenchman most? The
idea that people would laugh at him, because his command had come to
nothing. And so they did laugh at him, and almost to his face too, and
who could help it? If our Chief had any weak point it was this Marquis.

"After our little difference we became as great friends as before--if
a man may be said to be friends with a Sovereign Prince, for as such I
somehow could not help regarding the General: and one night, when we
had sate the company out, we talked of old times, and the jolly days of
sport we had together both before and after Braddock's; and that pretty
duel you were near having when we were boys. He laughed about it, and
said he never sa