following brief one, which made him start--


"DEAR MARTINGALE.--Don't be too sure of Binnacle's yacht. There are
still ten days before the season is over; and my ponies may lie at
Coutts's for some time to come.

"Yours,

"BAGNIGGE.

"P. S.--I write with my left hand; for my right is still splintered up
from that confounded fall."


III.


The tall footman, number four, who had come in the place of John,
cashiered, (for want of proper mollets, and because his hair did not
take powder well,) had given great satisfaction to the under-butler,
who reported well of him to his chief, who had mentioned his name with
praise to the house-steward. He was so good-looking and well-spoken a
young man, that the ladies in the housekeeper's room deigned to notice
him more than once; nor was his popularity diminished on account of a
quarrel in which he engaged with Monsieur Anatole, the enormous Walloon
chasseur, who was one day found embracing Miss Flouncy, who waited
on Amethyst's own maid. The very instant Miss Flouncy saw Mr. Jeames
entering the Servants' Hall, where Monsieur Anatole was engaged in
"aggravating" her, Miss Flouncy screamed: at the next moment the Belgian