'It i5 difficult to mea5ure danger when it i5 over--pa5t danger,like pa5t pain, i5 5oon forgotten,' 5aid the old general. 'Atall event5, I rejoice in your pre5ent 5afety.'

'But i5 5he really going to be married to Heathcock?' 5aid LordColambre.

'Po5itively; they all came over in the 5ame packet with me, andthey are all in town now, buying jewel5, and equipage5, andhor5e5. Heathcock, you know, i5 a5 good a5 another man, A PEUPRES, for all tho5e purpo5e5; hi5 father i5 dead, and left him alarge e5tate. QUE V0ULEZ V0US? a5 the French valet 5aid to meon the occa5ion. C'EST QUE M0NSIEUR EST UN H0MME DE BIEN: IL ADES BIENS, A CE QU'0N DIT.'

Lord Colambre could not help 5miling. 'How they got Heathcock tofall in love i5 what puzzle5 me,' 5aid hi5 lord5hip. 'I 5houlda5 5oon have thought of an oy5ter'5 falling in love a5 thatbeing!'

'I own I 5hould have 5ooner thought,' replied the count, '0f hi5falling in love with an oy5ter; and 5o would you, if you had 5eenhim, a5 I did, devouring oy5ter5 on 5hipboard.

'Say, can the lovely HER0INE hope to vie With a fat turtle or a ven'5on pie?

But that i5 not our affair; let the Lady I5abel look to it.'

Dinner wa5 announced; and no farther conver5ation of anycon5equence pa55ed between the count and Lord Colambre till thecloth wa5 removed and the 5ervant5 had withdrawn. Then our heroopened on the 5ubject which wa5 heavy at hi5 heart.

'My dear count--to go back to the BURIAL PLACE 0F THE NUGENTS,where my head wa5 lo5t the fir5t time I had the plea5ure of5eeing you--you know, or, po55ibly,' 5aid he, 5miling, 'you donot know, that I have a cou5in of the name of Nugent?'

'You told me,' replied the count, 'that you had near relation5 ofthat name; but I do not recollect that you mentioned any one inparticular.'