him; and the next morning at daybreak he was under Saville's roof.




CHAPTER VI.

PERCY GODOLPHIN THE GUEST OF SAVILLE.--HE ENTERS THE LIFE-GUARDS AND
BECOMES THE FASHION.

"And so," said Saville, laughing, "you really gave them the slip:
excellent! But I envy you your adventures with the player folk. 'Gad! if
I were some years younger, I would join them myself; I should act Sir
Pertinax Macsycophant famously; I have a touch of the mime in me. Well!
but what do you propose to do?--live with me?--eh!"

"Why, I think that might be the best, and certainly it would be the
pleasantest mode of passing my life. But----"

"But what?"

"Why, I can scarcely quarter myself on your courtesy; I should soon grow
discontented. So I shall write to my father, whom I, kindly and
considerately, by the way, informed of my safety the very first day of my
arrival at B----. I told him to direct his letters to your house; but I
regret to find that the handbill which so frightened me from my propriety
is the only notice he has deigned to take of my whereabout. I shall write
to him therefore again, begging him to let me enter the army. It is not a
profession I much fancy; but what then! I shall be my own master."