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Brooke, as we paddled over the dimpled lagoon, quoted the Greek for an apt description, the innumerable laughter of the waves. Brooke had been in Samoa, and was about to leave for England after several months in Tahiti. He wrote home that he had found the most ideal place in the world to work and live in.
"I am in earnest," said Talbot, looking at him fixedly, and speaking in a resolute tone "I am in earnest, and I mean to go this very night." Brooke looked away, drew a long breath, and subsided into silence. "How can you find the way?" he asked at length, in a gruff voice, and without looking up. "I don't know," said Talbot; "I can try again, as I tried before."
But this was some time afterwards. "He didn't say very much," replied Martha, gravely. "But I've got very much to tell you," continued Dorothy. "I'm engaged to be married to Mr. Brooke, and you must congratulate me. It is settled now, and mamma and my sister know all about it." Martha, when she was thus asked directly for congratulation, hardly knew at once how to express herself.
And now Brooke stood divested of the priest's dress, revealing himself clothed in a suit of brown tweed hunting-coat, knickerbockers, stockings, laced boots, etc. He then took from his coat pocket a travelling-cap with a visor, which he put upon his head. "You can have the priest's hat too," he added, "and But no, by Jove! I won't no, I won't let you have the spectacles.
And Brooke Dalton was a man of many friends. Lettice greeted him with a smile. "So you are here again," she said. "Yes, I've been here a day or two. Have you heard from Sydney yet?" "No, and we are dreadfully anxious. But papa says we shall hear very soon now." "I don't suppose you need have the slightest anxiety. Sydney is sure to do well: he was always a clever fellow."
"Welcome to Camp Laurence!" said the young host, as they landed with exclamations of delight. "Brooke is commander in chief, I am commissary general, the other fellows are staff officers, and you, ladies, are company. The tent is for your especial benefit and that oak is your drawing room, this is the messroom and the third is the camp kitchen.
March is as brisk and cheery, though rather grayer, than when we saw her last, and just now so absorbed in Meg's affairs that the hospitals and homes still full of wounded 'boys' and soldiers' widows, decidedly miss the motherly missionary's visits. John Brooke did his duty manfully for a year, got wounded, was sent home, and not allowed to return.
I suppose there is some relation between pictures and nature which I am too ignorant to feel just as you see what a Greek sentence stands for which means nothing to me." Dorothea looked up at Mr. Casaubon, who bowed his head towards her, while Mr. Brooke said, smiling nonchalantly "Bless me, now, how different people are!
Now, you ply him with the 'Trumpet, Humphrey; and I will put the leeches on him. What will you do, Sir James?" "The fact is, I don't like to begin about it with Brooke, in our mutual position; the whole thing is so unpleasant. I do wish people would behave like gentlemen," said the good baronet, feeling that this was a simple and comprehensive programme for social well-being.
Sir JAMES BROOKE was also employed by the British Government to conclude, on 27th May, 1847, a treaty with the Sultan of Brunai, whereby the cession to us of the small island of Labuan, which had been occupied as a British Colony in December, 1846, was confirmed, and the Sultan engaged that no territorial cession of any portion of his country should ever be made to any Foreign Power without the sanction of Great Britain.
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