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Captain Dinks was gradually getting better; but his recovery was so very slow that it would be weeks before he would be able to quit his cot. His wound had been a severe one, and had narrowly missed his heart.
The whole world of Saratoga congratulated Mrs. Dinks upon her beautiful niece, Miss Wayne. Even old Mrs. Dagon said to every body: "How lovely she is! And to think she comes from Boston! Where did she get her style? Fanny dear, I saw you hugging I beg your pardon, I mean waltzing with Mr. Dinks." But when Hope Wayne danced there seemed to be nobody else moving.
Dinks; and it is the homage that one clever person always pays to another to believe the other capable of every thing that occurs to himself. In the matter of the marriage Mrs. Budlong Dinks had been defeated, but she was not dismayed. She had lost Hope Wayne, indeed, and she could no longer hope, by the marriage of Alfred with his cousin, to consolidate the Burt property in her family.
"I laughs ven some folks dinks dey ain't shmarter don dey vosn't all te vile, don't it?" And stopping her knitting she threw back her head and laughed unrestrainedly. Her husband hastily shoved the stem of his pipe between his lips, sunk lower down in the chair, and smoked so hard that his head soon became almost invisible in the vapor.
"Arrah, sure, and I call, that goin'!" exclaimed the first mate exultantly, as he walked up and down the poop quickly just as if his doing so helped the vessel along, in the same way as one sees the coxswain of a boat bending backwards and forwards to keep time with the rowers! "Yes, like one o'clock!" chimed in Captain Dinks, showing an equal enthusiasm.
"I don't think it was very much like my fright," remarked Lulu, in disgust; "it couldn't have been half so bad." "Vell, maype not; but dat Nero ish a goot, kind tog; he bide dramps, but nefer dose nice leetle girl. Dis ish de great day when dose nice old lady pees von huntred years old. What you dinks? a fery long dime to live?" "Yes; very long," returned Lulu, emphatically.
We younger men are content to dine upon veal and spring chickens so long as we know that such intellects have the guidance of public affairs." Mr. Abel Newt bowed to Mr. Dinks as he spoke, while that gentleman listened with the stately gravity with which a President of the United States hears the Latin oration in which he is made a Doctor of Laws.
"Of course," said she, "that is something that would hardly be said of the daughter of Boniface Newt." And Mrs. Dagon resumed the study of Mrs. Dinks. "Or of the grand-nephew of Christopher Burt," said the latter, putting up her own glasses and returning the stare. "Grand-nephew! Is Alfred Dinks not the grandson of Mr. Burt?" asked Mrs. Newt, earnestly. "No, he is his grand-nephew.
Captain Dinks' ears were pretty sharp, and he heard what was said; so he called the men back.
Newt!" rejoined Mrs. Dinks; "I call it extraordinary!" "I call it outrageous," interpolated Mrs. Dagon. "Poor girl! to be run away with and married! What a blow for our family!" Mrs. Dinks resumed her glasses, and looked unutterably at Mrs. Dagon. But Mrs.
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