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The Countess Czerwinska—The Countess Broel Plater—Mlle. de Laval—The Duchesse de Grammont—An Absent-Minded Gentleman—Dusauty, the Fencing Master—The Marquis of Anglesey—Charming Venezuelans—Miss Fanny Parnell

Captain Howard Vyse—An Anecdote of Paganini—New Hats for Old Ones—Albert Bingham—Baron Alphonse de Rothschild—Madame Alice Kernave—Gambetta

My First Night at Mess—Life at Shorncliffe—The Charltons

An N.C.O. of the Old School—Major Blewett—Captain Byron—Sandhurst

I sail for India—Kandy—Dangerous Playmates—I arrive at Murree

My Brother-Officers—“The Oyster”—In High Society—Our Menagerie

A Subalterns’ Court-Martial—A Terrible Experience—High Mess-bills

Sialkote—Amateur Theatricals—An Ingenious Thief—Death of Albert Phipps—Agra—Voyage to England

Baroness James Édouard de Rothschild—At Carlsbad—Transferred to the 3rd Battalion

My Brother-Officers—A _Mésalliance_—Christy Minstrels and Tobogganing

Sarah Bernhardt in _Phèdre_—Vienna and Buda-Pesth

Percy Hope-Johnstone—A “Special” to Aldershot—A Costume-Ball at Folkestone

The Oppenheims—St. James’s and Winchester—The Colonel and Beauclerk

Paris Again—Eccentricities of Captain “Rabelais”—A Fire in Barracks—A Trying Inspection

Madrid and Cordova—Seville—General von Goeben and the Bull-fight—A View from the Alhambra—I rejoin my Regiment