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seemed to like them as partners, and they 

 usually selected the prettiest in the room, 

 no belle requiring to be asked twice to 

 dance with one of the dashing th Bengal 

 Light Cavalry. 



I fear I have digressed while looking 

 out at the smart mounted orderly on his 

 capering and gaily caparisoned charger. 

 I was roused from my reverie by Major 



H calling to show me the route 



for us to march in the morning to Chinsura, 

 which place is some twenty miles distant 

 from Calcutta on the left bank of the river 

 Hoogly. We marched the following morn- 

 ing at three o'clock, as it was the hot 

 season, and the Major was anxious to get 

 the recruits and soldiers into their 

 tents at Chinsura before the sun became 

 too hot, and the morning too advanced. 

 Well, we got off pretty punctually, 



