"During my confinement, old Jacob Munroe, the storekeeper at Montego bay, called to see me, and get his account settled. He brought a handsome clergyman-looking man with him, dressed in black--ah, you may leave that out--he will guess as much, if I tell him he was a clerical-looking person--whom he introduced to me as _Mister_ Lennox, and who had arrived in one of the Cuba smugglers some days before. Judge my surprise when this young gentleman told me, with all the appearance of truth, that he had been a corporal of marines on board the Gazelle, although old Jacob called him at first an _officer_ of marines, forgetting to say whether _commissioned_ or not, and had actually been with you in the Midge--how could you trust yourself in such a mussel-shell?--until he had, through the interest of his friends at home, obtained his discharge. "He told me the whole story of your being wounded, and taken into a Frenchman's house, and being desperately in love with some young American lady--but you know, Benjie, I don't like Americans--a Yankee girl, forsooth!--put the Yankee girl in a parenthesis--and a variety of other entertaining anecdotes, which made my heart yearn towards the only son of my dear sister Jane, although you have had the misfortune to have a Scotchman to your father--but, poor boy, he can't help that; so, Timothy, out with all about the Scotchman--he was born in Ireland, anyhow--for I am getting old now, Benjamin; and although rich enough, I begin to feel desolate and lonely, being without chick or child to comfort me, excepting some yellowhammers--no, not you, Timothy--so write away, my good lad--that claim a sort of left-handed interest in me here. But I have been kind to them, and no doubt must answer for the sins of my youth; but they are not just the sort of representatives one would wish to leave behind them; although, indeed, if this blessed state of things goes on at the pace it is doing at home, we may see a woolly-headed Lord Chancellor shortly--I hope he will have a civil tongue in his head--and a flat-nosed dingy-skinned Speaker of the honourable House.