text:  Little accustomed at any time to hide her emotions the high-spirited girl burst into tears upbraided her respectable parent and thick-headed cousin for their hardheartedness and want of charity ventured at first to disbelieve every sentence they had uttered proceeded to confess that she had had the pleasure of the stranger's acquaintance and ended by proudly introducing him (in an imaginary way) to her astonished friends as Major Fergus Hewitt of the Second Republican Brigade of Artillery and Commissioner to Mononia from the Provisional Government