The Twins

nd they never now might openly walk out unaccompanied: but love (who has not found this out?) is both daring and ingenious; and notwithstanding all that Emily purpo

ily Warren? for the poor girl did not know herself. All she could guess, she told Charles, as he zealous

bes of jewelled servants, a gilded palace, with its gardens and fountains: plenty of rare gems to play with, and a splendid queenly woman, whom she called

an, her nurse, she could remember, who told her as a child, but whether religiously or not she could not tell, "Darling, come to me when you wish to know who made you;" and then Mrs. Macki

besieging, and storming, and cannonading; but it ceased at last, and the captain, who then soon successively became both major and colonel, always kept her in his own quarters, making her his little pet; and, after the fighting w

, and wounded soldiers brought into the hospital; and often had she and good nurse Mackie tended at the sick bed-side. And the colonel had the jungle fever, and would not let her go from his sight; so she caught the fever too, and through Heav

ral (he was general now) got into great passions with them, and stormed, and swore, and drove them all away. Nurse Mackie grew to be old,

rliest recollection she was Amina; then at the hill-fort, Emily-Emily-nothing for years but Emily: and as she grew to womanhood, the general bade her sign her name to notes, and leave her card at houses, as Emily Warren: why, or by what right, she never thought of aski

you are not what he thinks you." And she cried a great deal, and longed to come to England; but the general would not

d called to her "Amy Stuart! Amy Stuart!" to the general's great amazement as clearly as her own; and she held up a packet in

. Mackie, and often wished that he had asked her what she meant; however, his brow soon cleared, for

arisome routine of sky and sea, the quarter-deck and cabin, we found ourselves at length in Plymouth Sound;