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At last, Furness said to Nancy, "Who was that lad that was looking out of the window with you? Was it your brother?" "My brother! bless you, no. You mean that scamp, Peter, who goes in the bumboat with old Mother Chopper." "Does he? well, I have either seen him before, or some one like him."
At our present date she was yet a young woman, but her influence among the members of her family was already recognised. Here her relatives from Ireland and elsewhere gathered round her; and here in 1644 her youngest brother, the future chemist, turning up brown and penniless, a foreign-looking lad of eighteen, after his six years of travel abroad, had been received with open arms.
"No, no, my lad," quickly interrupted the professor, gripping an arm as though fearful of an instant runaway. "That would be too risky; that would be almost suicidal! And no use talking," with an obstinate shake of his head, as Bruno attempted to edge in an expostulation. "I will never give my consent; never!"
Simson gave me another terrible shock, stealing into the open door-way with his light, as much awe-stricken, as wildly curious, as I. But the minister resumed, without seeing Simson, speaking to some one else. His voice took a tone of expostulation: "Is this right to come here? Your mother's gone with your name on her lips. Do you think she would ever close her door on her own lad?
"Because I knew you were saying that to yourself, lad, so there was no need for me to say it," returned his friend, with a side-glance and a twinkle of the eyes. "Well, whoever says it, it's a fact," continued Simkin, almost sternly, "an' I make no bones of admitting it.
I took him aside and walked out into the open with him. "Erling," I said, "do you mind that tale which Thrond tells concerning a damsel set afloat?" "Ay, more than mind it I saw it done! She went from our village. I was a well-grown lad of fourteen then. Now I know what you would say. It is the word of Thrond that this Quendritha, whom men fear so, is she. He says so, since you spoke to him."
"Ay! that they are, my lad; they'll want a shilling to row you aboard, or perhaps as you're a orficer, like, they'll want two shillings." Bob's heart sank. "But thruppence is plenty, speshly as you ain't got no kit." Bob's spirits rose again, and the man began to whistle a very doleful tune, but left off in a minute or two. "Like holidays?" he said suddenly. "Yes, very much."
The lad laughed and said: "Mother, you ought to go about the world preaching, and give lectures for girls only." "Yes, I could do that," replied the mother, also laughing. "But I have brought out the last part first; you must, of course, notice how she behaves to her parents and to her brothers and sisters. You are a good son yourself I need not tell you anything about that.
"Yes, lad, you may well be surprised at seeing a third wrangler a village schoolmaster, but you might find, if you searched, many men who took as high a degree, in even more humble positions. I took a fellowship, and lived for many years quietly upon it; then I married, and forfeited my fellowship. I thought, like many other men, that because I had taken a good degree I could earn my living.
It has been said already that he never changed the principles he had adopted as a lad among the apprentices and journeymen of New York; principles which, for all social politics, he summarized in the homely expression, "I am always for the under dog."
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