Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1827. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. DISAPPOINTMENT. HUMILIATION.--RETURN HOME. "Worth makes the man, the want of it the fellow; The rest is nought but leather and prunella." Pope. Herbert Greenlaw was kindly received by his brother officers, but without warmth: this commodity is not of town make; it is an inhabitant of the country; it pitches its tent, or bivouacs, where the hardships of a campagne (so called now, campaign being obsolete) draw comrades nearer together, and convince them of the comfort and necessity of union, mutual kindness, and mutual support. The officers of the Guards, who had deserved well of their country abroad, were not strangers to this truth, but they considered it as out of time and place in London; and those who had entered the corps since the peace had no habits but those of the court and town -- refined distance and well-bred indifference; nay, even the laurelled veterans had fallen into the soft chains of ease and pleasure, and never, except when together, thought of the victory or the wreath, fallen brethren and firm friendships. A little more of what is inurbanely called good fellowship--jollity, and a hearty welcome-- exists in marching regiments; but the cavalry somewhat resembles the Guards, and the hardy dragoon is sunk into the military Exquisite. This first want of a certain degree of openness which puts a stranger at his ease, and makes timidity feel at home and happy, was no disappointment to our youth: mamma had taught him to- be very fine, and he expected to find the same deportment in the polished Gardes; but what mortified him in the extreme was his failure in producing any effect on his brother officers. In the first instance, a Peer was there as a stranger, and engrossed more attention than the proud young Commoner; all his heraldry was useles...