95.  From the day that I first spoke to her, I never had a thought of her ever being the wife of any other man, more than I had a thought of her being transformed into a chest of drawers; and I formed my resolution at once, to marry her as soon as we could get permission, and to get out of the army as soon as I could.  So that this matter was, at once, settled as firmly as if written in the book of fate.  At the end of about six months, my regiment, and I along with it, were removed to FREDERICKTON, a distance of a hundred miles, up the river of ST. JOHN; and, which was worse, the artillery were expected to go off to England a year or two before our regiment!  The artillery went, and she along with them; and now it was that I acted a part becoming a real and sensible lover.  I was aware, that, when she got to that gay place WOOLWICH, the house of her father and mother, necessarily visited by numerous persons not the most select, might become unpleasant to her, and I did not like, besides, that she should continue to work hard.  I had saved a hundred and fifty guineas, the earnings of my early hours, in writing for the paymaster, the quartermaster, and others, in addition to the savings of my own pay. I sent her all my money, before she sailed; and wrote to her to beg of her, if she found her home uncomfortable, to hire a lodging with respectable people:  and, at any rate, not to spare the money, by any means, but to buy herself good clothes, and to live without hard work, until I arrived in England; and I, in order to induce her to lay out the money, told her that I should get plenty more before I came home.

96.  As the malignity of the devil would have it, we were kept abroad two years longer than our time, Mr. PITT (England not being so tame then as she is now) having knocked up a dust with Spain about Nootka Sound.  Oh, how I cursed Nootka Sound, and poor bawling Pitt too, I am afraid!  At the end of four years, however, home I came; landed at Portsmouth, and got my discharge from the army by the great kindness of poor LORD EDWARD FITZGERALD, who was then the Major of my regiment.  I found my little girl a servant of all work (and hard work it was), at five pounds a year, in the house of a CAPTAIN BRISAC; and, without hardly saying a word about the matter, she put into my hands the whole of my hundred and fifty guineas unbroken!

97.  Need I tell the reader what my feelings were?  Need I tell kind-hearted English parents what effect this anecdote must have produced on the minds of our children?  Need I attempt to describe what effect this example ought to have on every young woman who shall do me the honour to read this book?  Admiration of her conduct, and self-gratulation on this indubitable proof of the soundness of my own judgment, were now added to my love of her beautiful person.