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It was Japhet, a gallant man on one side, but a coward on the other like the rest of the Abati, who betrayed us, driven thereto by emptiness within, which, after all, is an ill enemy to fight. He went out and told Joshua where we lay hid, and then, of course, they came.
"If you recollect, Japhet," replied Timothy, "you had received one or two letters from me, relative to the movements of the gipsy, and stating his intention to carry off the little girl from the boarding-school.
Had the Christian element always remained alone in it, or at least supreme, long ere this the victory would have been secure forever, and the Catholic missions alone would have fulfilled the old prophecies and given to the sons of Japhet possession of the tents of Sem a glorious work so well begun in the East, in India and Japan; in the West, in the whole of America!
We then returned to our dinner. "Whether they will ever make a Quaker of you, Japhet, I am very doubtful," observed Mr Masterton, as we walked back; "but as for making one of that fellow Timothy, I'll defy them." "He laughs at everything," replied I: "and views everything in a ridiculous light at all events, they never will make him serious."
Still, we had great fun with Japhet in 'Search of a Father', and with 'Midshipman Easy', and we felt a fine physical shiver in the darkling moods of 'Snarle-yow the Dog-Fiend. I do not remember even the names of the other novels, except 'Jacob Faithful, which I chanced upon a few years ago and found very, hard reading.
"Good people, Japhet um honest people, Japhet don't fight little stiff spirit moves and so on," said Mr Cophagus, as he concluded his narrative, and then shaking me by the hand, retired to shave and dress. In half an hour afterwards Ephraim came in with a draught, which I was desired to take by Mr Cophagus, and then to try and sleep. This was good advice, and I followed it.
I began to feel most dreadfully in love, and thought of marriage, and making my fortune, and I don't know what; but all this was put an end to by one simple short sentence, delivered in a very decided but soft voice, "Japhet, don't be silly." I was crushed, and all my hopes crushed with me. I dropped her hand, and sat like a fool. "And now hear me.
Your father returned to his regiment, and thus did they like two privateers, who, when they meet and engage, as soon as they find out their mistake, hoist their colours, and sheer off by mutual consent." "I can't say much for my mother's affection or delicacy," observed I. "The less you say the better, Japhet however, that is your father's story. And how to proceed.
"And you'd better tell Japhet Williams so, if he mentions the matter." The slightest pause followed. "Or," added Quisanté, grinding his heel into the hearth rug as though in absence of mind, "if it happens to crop up in talk between you." Whether the matter did crop up as suggested or not is one of those points of secret history which it seems useless to try to discover.
"Japhet Newland," interrupted Susannah, with more severity than I ever had seen in her sweet countenance, "do not trouble thyself with giving thy reasons, seeing thou hast given every reason but the right one, which is, that thy pride revolts at it." "I was about to observe," replied I, "that it was a name that sounded of mammon, and not fitting for one of our persuasion.
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