fterwards, when I saw Adele, and who had
the narrative from her husband.

It appeared, that as soon as the Colonel arrived in London, still
persuaded that he had married Caroline Stanhope, and not Adele Chabot,
without stating his intention to her, he went to Grosvenor Square, and
requested to see Mr Stanhope. This was about a fortnight after
Caroline's elopement with Mr Selwyn. He was admitted, and found Mr
and Mrs Stanhope in the drawing-room. He had sent up his card, and Mr
Stanhope received him with great hauteur.

"What may your pleasure be with me, sir?" (looking at the card).
"Colonel Jervis, I think you call yourself?"

Now, Colonel Jervis was a man well known about town, and, in his own
opinion, not to know him argued yourself unknown; he was, therefore, not
a little angry at this reception, and being a really well-bred man, was
also much startled with the vulgarity of both parties.

"My name, Mr Stanhope, as you are pleased to observe," said the
Colonel, with hauteur, "is Jervis, and my business with you is relative
to your daughter."

"My daughter, sir?"

"Our daughter! Why, you don't mean to tell us that _you_ have run away
with our daughter?" screamed Mrs Stanhope.

"Yes, madam, such is the fact; she is now my wife, and I trust that she
is not married beneath herself."

"A Colonel!--a paltry Colonel!--a match for my daughter! Why, with her
fortune she might have married a Duke," screamed Mrs Stanhope. "I'll
never speak to the wretch again. A Colonel, indeed! I suppose a
Militia-Colonel. I daresay you are only a Captain, after all. Well,
take her to barracks, and to barracks yourself. You may leave the
house. Not a penny--no, not a penny do you get. Does he, Stanhope?"

"Not one half a farthing," replied Mr Stanhope, pompously. "Go, sir;
Mrs Stanhope's sentiments are mine."

The Colonel, who was in a towering passion at the treatment he received,
now started up, and said, "Sir and Madam, you appear to me not to
understand the usages of good society, and I positively declare, that
had I been aware of the insufferable vulgarity of her parents, nothing
would have induced me to marry the daughter. I tell you this, because I
care nothing for you. You are on the stilts at present, but I shall
soon bring you to your senses; for know, Sir and Madam, although I did
elope with and married your daughter, the marriage is not legal, as she
was married under a false name, and that was her own