"
"Let me tell you," replied the captain, gravely, "a lieutenant
colonelcy in the Guards is a very pretty thing."
"And Colonel Wellmere a very pretty man," added Frances.
"Nay, Frances," returned her sister, "Colonel Wellmere was never a
favorite of yours; he is too loyal to his king to be agreeable to
your taste."
Frances quickly answered, "And is not Henry loyal to his king?"
"Come, come," said Miss Peyton, "no difference of opinion about the
colonel--he is a favorite of mine."
"Fanny likes majors better," cried the brother, pulling her upon his
knee.
"Nonsense!" said the blushing girl, as she endeavored to extricate
herself from the grasp of her laughing brother.
"It surprises me," continued the captain, "that Peyton, when he procured
the release of my father, did not endeavor to detain my sister in the
rebel camp."
"That might have endangered his own liberty," said the smiling girl,
resuming her seat. "You know it is liberty for which Major Dunwoodie is
fighting."
"Liberty!" exclaimed Sarah; "very pretty liberty which exchanges one
master for fifty."
"The privilege of changing masters at all is a liberty."
"And one you ladies would sometimes be glad to exercise," cried the
captain.
"We like, I believe, to have the liberty of choosing who they shall be
in the first place," said the laughing girl.
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