she was watching him eagerly from the front seat of an open carriage. Despite himself, his heart had given an almost sickening leap, and he had gone back and thrown the Lafayette guard so heavily, in breaking through the line, that the man from Pennsylvania said afterwards that he "thought he had been hit by freight."
Hart had carefully avoided meeting Miss Hollingsworth, although Bliss, on congratulating him when the struggle was over, had said: "I say, the girls are over there. Why don't you trot across and see them—never mind the dirt."
Hart, however, had hidden himself in the dressing-room and wished to be alone. That night, however, he had dreamt that Miss Hollingsworth had told him she was proud of him, whereat he had blushed in his sleep. So all this may account for his exuding a blue haze, and being in a "Tit Willow" frame of mind.
The bell in old North had commenced ding-donging, and Putney Betts and Golatly asked each other "What the dickens was the next recitation?" Hart knew, of course, and pulled a well thumbed note-book from his
