nne,' cried John, with more gaiety than truthfulness, 'don't
let yourself be troubled! What happens is for the best. Soldiers love
here to-day and there to-morrow. Who knows that you won't hear of my
attentions to some Spanish maid before a month is gone by? 'Tis the way
of us, you know; a soldier's heart is not worth a week's purchase--ha,
ha! Goodbye, good-bye!'

Anne felt the expediency of his manner, received the affectation as real,
and smiled her reply, not knowing that the adieu was for evermore. Then
with a tear in his eye he went out of the door, where he bade farewell to
the miller, Mrs. Loveday, and Bob, who said at parting, 'It's all right,
Jack, my dear fellow. After a coaxing that would have been enough to win
three ordinary Englishwomen, five French, and ten Mulotters, she has to-
day agreed to bestow her hand upon me at the end of six months. Good-bye,
Jack, good-bye!'

The candle held by his father shed its waving light upon John's face and
uniform as with a farewell smile he turned on the doorstone, backed by
the black night; and in another moment he had plunged into the darkness,
the ring of his smart step dying away upon the bridge as he joined his
companions-in-arms, and went off to blow his trumpet till silenced for
ever upon one of the bloody battle-fields of Spain.

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