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pleasant passengers on board, and what 

 with their cheerful society, and the bracing 

 sea breezes, I was a different man in a 

 month, and no one would have recognised 

 me as the weak, emaciated invalid who 

 was carried on board the " Lord Lowther," 

 probably to die on the passage, which I 

 knew was the opinion of a]l my friends. 

 In due time we landed on English shores, 

 and, after reporting myself in London at 

 the Horse Guards, I started off by the 

 mail train en route for my Irish home, 

 where I regained my strength in such an 

 incredibly short space of time that the 

 medical board in India would have been 

 astonished had they seen me ; for they 

 had, I believe, but faint hopes of my 

 recovery, even at home. " While there is 

 life there is hope," and my case was 

 another illustration of the truth of this 



