“O woman! In our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,
And variable as the shade
By the light quivering aspen made;
When pain and anguish wring the brow,
A ministering angel thou!”
[113] Brother to sir John Macdonald, the adjutant-general at the Horse-Guards.
[114] I wish I were as positive of every part of my narrative. E.C.
SERGEANT-MAJOR COTTON’S
WATERLOO CABINET.