ABSTRACT
This conversation led them to the place of their destination, which they entered together, and seating themselves, called for the newspaper. Their attention was soon drawn off, by a young man in a military dress, / who threw down a paper he was reading, and exclaimed, ‘This is cruelly hard indeed, (I am afraid he used a more prophane epithet) that such things should be, here is a boy has just got the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, who has not been in the army above a twelve month, and I have only just got a company.’
