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For an hour he sat listening to the somewhat prosy talk of the old lady, and then there being no sign of Annis's return he silently departed and made his way back to the Seamew. To the cook's relief he found that the Seamew's next voyage was to a little port on the West Coast named Cocklemouth, calling at the garrison town of Bymouth on the way.
Love is a brave appetizer when backed by long fasting and a ten hours' ride, and Captain Breton brought all the vigor of youth and happiness and of a noble hunger to bear upon the viands. The glow of the cheerful room was infinitely comforting to the tired traveller; the sight of Annis's happy face put fresh hope and courage in his heart.
"Yes; and you a grandmother! I hardly know how to believe it! You seem wonderfully young for that." "Do I?" laughed Elsie. "I acknowledge that I feel young that I have never yet been able to reason myself into feeling old." "Don't try; keep young as long as ever you can," was Annis's advice. "It is what you seem to be doing," said Elsie, sportively, and with an admiring look at her cousin.
The pink-upholstered lady, starting back with an agility remarkable in one of her size, clasped her hands. "Don't tell me you write!" she cried dramatically. "All right, I won't," protested poor Bob, "for I don't." A slow expression of bewilderment overspread Mrs. Annis's face, and she glanced toward Baker with an arched brow of interrogation. "I merely wanted Mr. Orde to meet you, Mrs.
With soothings, and with some of the wine on the table, Lady Drummond succeeded in calming the girl, and, with Annis's assistance, she undressed her and placed her in the bed. 'Oh, do not gang! Leave me not, she entreated. And as the lady sat by her, holding her hand, she spoke, 'It was all dim before me as the music played, and 'Thou wast sair forefaughten, dearie. Eleanor went on
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