At the approach of the young women a soldier got to his feet. Stephen soon grew tired of listening to them and retired to his own littleroom to read a newspaper. Now he sat among the highest in the land and was courted bythem! The other guests continually directed remarks Jonathan Strange took a different view.
She seized Arabella'shand and held it, as if to sho w him that she would not consent to be partedfrom her. It was a half day's ride from the city. On either hand a row of bare winter trees followed theline of the walls. In the coffee-room he found a handsomeyoung man in a captain's uniform who was pacing up and down.
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