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That's why women go in for them. Did you ever hear of a man doing a rest-cure?" "Well, I've heard of you, at Overdene," said Billy, maliciously. "Rot! You don't call staying with the duchess a rest-cure? Good heavens, man! You get about the liveliest time of your life when her Grace of Meldrum undertakes to nurse you. Did you hear about old Pilberry the parson, and the toucan?" "Yes, shut up.
The aged martyr being led back to the prior's chamber, was, under cloud of night, taken to the castle; but my grandfather saw no more of him, nor of Master Meldrum, the seneschal; for there was a great fear among the bishops' men that the multitude would rise and attempt a rescue; and my grandfather, not being inclined to go so far with his disguise as to fight against that cause, took occasion, in the dusk of the evening, to slip out of the castle, and to hide himself in the town, being resolved, after what he had witnessed, no longer to abide, even as a spy, in a service which his soul loathed.
Their possessor was just back from Boulogne, where she had spent a week with dear Mrs. Floyd-Taylor: this accounted for the effusiveness of her reunion with dear Mrs. Meldrum. Her black garments were of the freshest and daintiest; she suggested a pink-and-white wreath at a showy funeral.
"But it's a tremendous secret?" I was moved to mirth. "Precisely: she wired me this noon, and spent another shilling to tell me that not a creature in the world is yet to know it." "She had better have spent it to tell you that she had just passed an hour with the creature you see before you." "She has just passed an hour with every one in the place!" Mrs. Meldrum cried.
Then, still in company with Puss, who would not leave his side, he imitated the example of the first mate, and selected a coat or two and a change of clothes from out of his own sea-chest. He did not forget the others either, but gathered together various garments which he saw lying about in the captain's cabin and that of Mr Meldrum, thinking that both might perhaps be glad of them bye and bye.
As the wind is still from the north-west, and we are well up to the northward, I should try to weather it if possible; and, if we can't do that, we must pass to the south of the land." "Very good," replied the captain. "Only, you know the poor old Nancy cannot sail as well now, as she could when in full trim. I don't at all like the look of the weather, though, Mr Meldrum.
And you'd better peddle something insurance, or lightning rods, or 'The Royal Gall'ry of Po'try 'n Art' or " "'Life of the James and Younger Brothers. That ought to sell well with the Rutherfords," suggested Roy satirically, trying to rise to the occasion. "Jess Tighe and Dan Meldrum don't need any pointers from the James Boys." "Tighe and Meldrum Who are they?"
"Golly, massa," exclaimed the darkey, when Mr Meldrum presented him with the recovered copper which Snowball looked upon almost as the apple of his eye "me able cook pea-shoop now, sah, and bile de beef in 'spectable style, sah! Dat sospan, massa, no good for ship's company. Um bile, and bile, and bile, and nebbah bile enuff!" "Ah! mind you don't go cooking too extravagantly," said Mr Meldrum.
"We'll have to take to the boats soon," said the captain, turning round as he came up, "that is, when the sea moderates a bit. I don't see anything else that can be done do you?" "If I were you," suggested Mr Meldrum, "I would try and run her ashore first and beach her.
Just as he was going away he asked me from what source at Folkestone the horrid tale had proceeded. When I had given him, as I saw no reason not to do, the name of Mrs. Meldrum he exclaimed: "Oh I know all about her; she's a friend of some friends of mine!" At this I remembered wilful Betty and said to myself that I knew some one who would probably prove more wilful still.
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