text:  "Well but then major what the deuce right had she to marry without giving me notice of her intentions?" "Set ye up and push ye forrit!--marry come up! as a body may say--who made you the young lassie's guardian? If you were really engaged to her why didn't you go to Oakside at once and find out the truth and then go instantaneously and kick the fellow you met on the top of the coach round and round the barrack yard till there was not enough of him left to plant your boot on?" The young man looked down as if a little ashamed of himself