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"REALLY, Captain Guise, you need trouble yourself no more in the matter; I am quite able to take care of myself! " cried young Cornet Stanley, with a little impatience in his tone.
The speaker was a blue-eyed lad, whose fresh complexion showed that he had not been long in the burning climate of India. Cornet Stanley had indeed but lately left an English home, for he was little more than sixteen years of age. With very anxious feelings, and many tears, had Mrs. Stanley parted with her rosy-checked Norman. "He is so very young," as she said, "to meet all the trials and temptations of an officer's life in India!"