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" Nothing better than that two persons admir- 

 ably suited for each other should find this out ; 

 both seem to me to have made the discovery." 



When I said this there was a palpable blush on 

 the Major's bronzed cheek, and his eye sparkled, 

 but he merely quietly remarked, in his usual 

 manner, "She is so young, Abbott, and I thought 

 her destined for Hope." 



" Young ! to be sure she is ; and in not a few 

 things you are the youngest-minded of us all, 

 spite of your gravity ; nor is thirty-three a very 

 patriarchal age." 



" That is a disputed point, my good friend," he 

 observed. 



"Then make the lady umpire, oversman, or 

 something of the kind," I said, laughing, as we 

 rose to leave the room; but he only shook his 

 head and said, " Time may show, Abbott." 



Such was all of Borneo and Juliet seen on the 

 surface until our friends departed, which they did 

 on the Saturday morning, much to our regret, 

 and somewhat to the detriment of fish and fowl 

 on loch and moor, now left without any defence 

 to what (by Mr. Greg, and the philosophy of the 

 new school) is termed "our savage instincts;" 



