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when we had got out of her hearing. One of these young 

 men came to England soon afterwards ; and he, who keeps 

 an inn in Yorkshire, came over to Preston, at the time of the 

 election, to verify whether I were the same man. When he 

 found that I was, he appeared surprised; but what was his 

 surprise when I told him that those tall young men, whom he 

 saw around me, were the sons of that pretty little girl that he 

 and I saw scrubbing out the washing-tub on the snow in 

 New Brunswick at daybreak. 



' From the day that I first spoke to her, I never had a 

 thought of her being the wife of any other man, more than 

 I had a thought of her being transformed into a chest of 

 drawers; and I formed my resolution at once, to marry her 

 as soon as we could get permission, and to get out of the 

 army as soon as I could. So that this matter was at once 

 settled as firmly as if written in the book of fate. At the 

 end of about six months, my regiment, and I along with it, 

 were removed to Frederickton, a distance of a hundred 

 miles up the river of St. John ; and, which was worse, the 

 artillery were expected to go off to England a year or two 

 before our regiment ! The artillery went, and she along 

 with them; and now it was that I acted a part becoming a 

 real and sensible lover. I was aware that, when she got to 

 that gay place, Woolwich, the house of her father and 

 mother, necessarily visited by numerous persons, not the 

 most select, might become unpleasant to her ; and I did not 

 like, besides, that she should continue to work hard. I 

 had saved a hundred and fifty guineas, the earnings of my 

 early hours, in writing for the paymaster, the quartermaster, 

 and others, in addition to the savings of my own pay. I 

 sent her all my money before she sailed, and wrote to her 



