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Nothing had been said between the father and son as to the special advantages of Campobello for the decision of the question pending when they saw each other last; but the son knew that the father guessed why he chose that island for the purpose; and now the elder knew that if the younger had anything to tell him he would tell it, and if he had not he would keep it.
Pasmer?" he pleaded, turning to her mother. "Oh, I'm afraid we must be getting away from Boston by that time. It's very tiresome, but there seems to be nobody left; and one can't stay quite alone, even if you're sick of moving about. Have you ever been we think of going there to Campobello?" "No; but I hear that it's charming, there.
He was naturally very refined, she said, and, if he was not a very serious person, he was amiable beyond anything. She alleged many little incidents of their acquaintance at Campobello in proof of her theory that he had an instinctive appreciation of Alice, and she was sure that no one could value her nobleness of character more than he.
"Is the light of Campobello particularly good on such questions?" she asked. "I don't mean that exactly, but I wish you could help me to some conclusion." "Yes; why not?" "It's the first time I've ever had a business question referred to me." "Well, then, you can bring a perfectly fresh mind to it." "Let me see," she said, affecting to consider. "It's really a very important matter?"
She thought her very crude in her ideas cruder than she had seemed at Campobello, where she had perhaps been softened by her affinition with the gentler and kindlier nature of Dan Mavering. Mrs.
She'll enjoy the joke, and so will Miss Wrayne. They're jolly and easygoing; they won't mind." "How long have you known them?" "I met them on Class Day, and then I saw them the day after I left Campobello." Dan laughed a little. "How, saw them?" "Well, I went to a yacht race with them. I happened to meet them in the street, and they wanted me to go; and I was all broken up, and I Went."
Sheets sculpturesquely draped the deities who took part; a fox-pelt from the hearth did duty as the leopard skin of Bacchus; a feather duster served Neptune for a trident; the lyre of Apollo was a dust-pan; a gull's breast furnished Jove with his grey beard. The fable was adapted to modern life, and the scene had been laid in Campobello, the peculiarities of which were to be satirised throughout.
Pasmer had not repeated what she had said about Dan in this connection. "I wish I could have seen Julia," Alice went on. "It would have been quite like Campobello again." "Oh, quite," said Mrs. Brinkley, with a short breath, and not knowing whither this tended. Alice did not leave her in doubt.
The business of Simonds and White was not confined to St. John, they had quite an important post for the Indian trade and the fishery on an island adjacent to Campobello, now known as Indian Island. And it may be observed in passing that this was an island of many names.
We ought to have war, if war is necessary to possess Campobello and Deer Islands; or else we ought to give the British Eastport. I am not sure but the latter would be the better course.
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