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The surgeon, having satisfied himself that everything was as he had left it, very deliberately resumed his seat and replaced his wig, as he inquired, with a brevity that would have honored Lieutenant Mason,-"Had it petticoats, George?""I saw nothing but its heavenly eyes - its bloom - its majestic step - its grace," replied the young man, with rather more ardor than his surgeon thought consistent with his debilitated condition; and he laid his hand on his mouth to stop him, saying himself,-"It must have been Miss Jeanette Peyton - a lady of fine accomplishments, with - hem - with something of the kind of step you speak of - a very complacent eye; and as to the bloom, I dare say offices of charity can summon as fine a color to her cheeks, as glows in the faces of her more youthful nieces."