Chapter 6

"I am a man of the old school, Newton; yet I hate proverbs, and everything old, except wine and good breeding." "You are aware, uncle," said I, to change the subject, "that the lancers are under orders for Turkey?" "Where women are kept under lock and key, bought, and secluded from society; just as in Britain they are thrust into it for sale." "And so, my dear uncle, supposing that a lively young lancer will make a most excellent husband for your noble and beautiful _protegee_, you are resolved to make a victim of …