You may fancy us rather closely packed in our _dormitories_: Russell, Annesley, and I, were crammed into a hole just large enough to hold three small camp-beds, no bigger than births on board a Holyhead packet: we could neither toss nor tumble, for the best possible reason, we had not _room_ for such indications of restlessness; but we lay quietly as sleeplessly we "chewed the cud of sweet and bitter fancy" upon all that we had seen and heard in company with each other since the "_English foreigners_," as old Lawrence calls them, had been at Glenalta. In the pauses which will occur, even in the best supported colloquy, sundry sighs, which had not quite so far to travel as from "Indus to the Pole," were borne right into my bed by the _impetus_ with which they were sent from Russell's, and a certain melancholy expression, which even a sigh can convey to a _finely constructed_ ear, convinced me that my friend had lost his heart, or at least _mislaid_ it since he came amongst us. While exercising my ingenuity a little farther, to determine the person who had committed grand larceny on his affections, a few notes whistled from time to time, _sotto voce_, assured me that Charlotte was the thief, and that her Irish melodies lived in the memory of my poor _chum_. Annesley is such a sensitive fellow, that if his heart is anything the worse for the wear since he came to Ireland, I have it to discover; but from the specimen which I have given above, I flatter myself that you have already decreed my sagacity to be worthy of apotheosis, even amongst the North American Indians. This Killarney will be a good test, I think, of our amatory tendencies, and a romance _a-piece_ must be the result of such "means and appliances" as a glance from Lord Kenmare's park, across the lower Lake, promise for our _coup d'essai_ on the morrow. Mine is rather a situation of responsibility, for, in addition to my _own_ loves, should these bowers inspire the tender passion, I feel a God-fatherly sort of security called for on my part, that the new guests shall conduct themselves so as to return well pleased, and pleasing, to the last. In short, though, like Mrs. Gilpin we are "on pleasure bent," it must be to resemble her discretion also, "with a prudent mind," and I clearly perceive that I shall have to enact the part of a male _duenna_.