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It would interest me to hear about them. 'No; I drift too, said Althea. 'You can't call it drifting when you read and study such a lot. 'Oh yes, I can, when there is no real aim in the work. You should hear Mr. Kane scold me about that. Gerald was not interested in Mr. Kane. 'I should think, after all you've done, you might rest on your oars for a bit, he remarked.
Enderby herself pushed a stately old oaken chair towards the rose-framed sash and said encouragingly: "Sit down, Mrs. Kane, and make yourself comfortable. There is nothing to be nervous about. You know we are all friends of your favourite, Hetty." Mrs. Kane was trembling with some curious excitement, and could not remove her eyes from Reine Gaythorne's face.
Kane" fall to the floor, started up in great dismay. Mrs. Harding likewise dropped her sewing, and jumped to her feet in alarm. It did not take long to see how matters stood. "Hurt ye much, Rachel?" inquired Timothy. "It's about killed me," groaned the afflicted maiden. "Oh, I shall have to have my foot cut off, or be a cripple anyway."
"I could go to the village school," said Hetty; "I'm not clever at books, and they could teach me there all I want to learn. When I grow up I might be the village teacher. And you and Mr. Kane could live with me in the school-house when you are old." "Bless the child's heart! How she has planned it all out. But don't be thinking of such foolishness, my Hetty.
I can not in this connection refrain from mentioning the valuable services of Colonel Thomas L. Kane, who, from motives of pure benevolence and without any official character or pecuniary compensation, visited Utah during the last inclement winter for the purpose of contributing to the pacification of the Territory.
It was there that the Prince Albert in 1851, and the Advance with Kane, in 1853, were kept prisoners by the ice for several weeks.
Now, he leaned forward and peered intently at Shorty, and Shorty marveled how his eyes bored into his own with a cold intensity that chilled the giant. "Shorty," he said, in a low, strained voice; "Mother hasn't been hurt?" "I forgot to tell you that," said Shorty; "she said, 'tell Kane I am all right."
"For as mad as he is, it's him you may thank for yer horse," answered the yellow-haired woman. "Why, Holy Mother! did ye never hear of Kane the Blood-Healer?" The road round them was suddenly thronged with hounds, snuffing at Pilot, and pushing between Mrs. Pat and the fence. The cheerful familiar sound of the huntsman's voice rating them made her feel her feet on solid ground again.
He had recently made the acquaintance of a most agreeable family from Devonshire, which he met at the house of his friend, Sir Joshua Reynolds. It consisted of Mrs. Horneck, widow of Captain Kane Horneck; two daughters, seventeen and nineteen years of age, and an only son, Charles, "the Captain in Lace," as his sisters playfully and somewhat proudly called him, he having lately entered the Guards.
In answer to this Hetty sat up as well as the pain of her foot would allow, and flung her arms round Mrs. Kane's neck. "Oh, keep me here with you!" she cried. "I am tired of being grand. I will stay with you and learn to be a useful girl, if only you will love me." Mrs. Kane heaved a long sigh as Hetty's arms fastened round her neck.
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