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whole truth from her Mr. Stuart imposed on. It will therefore be necessary for the lieutenant to render his admiral the satisfaction of a gentleman."

Charles immediately wrote as follows.

"Lieutenant Stuart will meet Admiral Springfield to-morrow morning at seven o'clock, at Primrose-hill, and give the gallant admiral all the satisfaction one gentleman can render another."

Though it might be a little out of etiquette of naval honour, for an admiral to demand the satisfaction of a gentleman from a lieutenant, the admiral deemed it more polite to fight an inferior officer, than to horserwhip him.

: The admiral set to work immedi ately to add a codicil to his will, and to arrange some matters of minor importance. But when, on the appointed morning, both parties, with their ser

conds, got to the place appointed, a couple of police officers, to whom the admiral's mistress had discovered the affair, arrested them both, and brought them before the sitting magistrate, who in his private room had both parties bound over to keep the

peace.

The admiral was so much pleased with the gallantry of Charles, that he invited him that very day to his own house, to dine with himself, their seconds, and none else. Miss Springfield was the admiral's only child and heiress; from her the matter was kept a profound secret, and Vice admiral Saunders himself could not have received more attention than did our young Stuart; but Caroline (that was the young lady's name) particularly engaged Charles's attention.

The admiral loved his daughter, and contradicted her in nothing except in nautical affairs, of which, however,

from what she had heard her dear papa speak, and what she had read, Caroline possessed a pretty extensive knowledge; and old Springfield was blind to the dispatch Charles used to ingratiate himself with the young lady; not that Charles had yet any plan laid, but it was in his nature to admire, and to wish to be admired. At all events he had not been idle; for the pretty Caroline, though daily in the midst of company, was charmed with Charles, and got her father to promise that she should make up a small party for a ball next Friday evening; her cousin Miss Braeside would assist her in the arrange

ments.

The house was crowded to excess; all was gaiety, splendour, and life, for none but friends were there.

According to custom, but to what custom Charles never could learn, he called at the admiral's the next day to

enquire how the old gentleman and the young ladies were.

The admiral received Charles with great affability; was just going to the admiralty; then they would take a walk, and return to dinner: they did so.

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CHAPTER XII.

As Parian marble, pure and bright,
The shining maid my bosom warms;
Her face, too dazzling for the sight,
Her sweet coquetting-how it charms!
FRANCIS' HORACE.

THINGS went on in this way for a short time, but the admiral's suspicions of an intrigue-no! he would not call it that an improper-" 'twas certainly improper for Miss Caroline Springfield to show so much attention to a lieutenant"-an improper famimiliarity between his daughter and one of his officers; that, by and by, the visits of Stuart were received by the admiral with great coolness. In short, when Charles called, the admiral was from home. Miss Springfield!

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