to go and nurse him, saying that he was,
he believed, on his death-bed, and beseeching us to have compassion on a
friendless, childless old man. The lot fell on me. I found him very
different to what I expected, and interested in all matters concerning
us. Do you remember, Hurry, rescuing an old gentleman from the mob in
London during the Lord George Gordon riots? That was Sir Hurricane
himself. He knew you; and when I told him about you, and that you had
fallen in love with an American lady, the daughter of a rebel, and that
you had no means of marrying her, he answered, `But he shall have the
means. I'll give them to him. I like his spirit. I like her. Her
friends have espoused the right side--the side of liberty. They were
not afraid to stand up boldly against tyranny and injustice. Tell him I
shall be happy to welcome the little rebel as my niece, if I live, and,
at all events, to know that her children will inherit my property.'
Soon after this our kind old uncle died, and he has left you, as far as
I can understand, fully three thousand a year."

How my heart bounded when I heard these words! I handed the letter to
Colonel Carlyon. He rose and took my hand.

"I had not intended to be very stern when, just now, I spoke to you," he
said, and I knew that he spoke the truth. "I wished to ascertain
whether your affection for my daughter was as great as I was assured it
is. I know that you are eager to give her, before she hears it from
others, the satisfactory information you have received. Go and tell
her."

I did. A few days subsequent to the news of peace being received, we
were married. After a tour in the States she accompanied me to England,
and my American bride won golden opinions from all the relatives and
friends to whom I had the happiness of introducing her. A dutiful and
affectionate wife she has always been to me, and I have had just cause
to be thankful that I married the Little Rebel.

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