“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.