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Glancing at her mother, Anna replied, "She says she don't want to come down." "Bashful," returned the captain, while Nellie Douglass asked, "who 'Lena was," at the same time returning the pinch which John Jr. had slyly given her as a mode of showing his preference, for Nellie was his favorite. Fearful of Anna's reply, Mrs. Livingstone answered, carelessly, "She's the child of one of Mr.
"I saw you move the pegs, ma'am, when you thought I wasn't looking!" "But, what did Sarah say?" asked Nellie, clinging to the old sailor and trying to attract his attention to the point at issue, from which he seemed sadly inclined to stray. "What did the good Sarah say?" "Eh?" said he, cocking his head on one side in his most bird-like fashion and pretending not to understand his questioner.
All the disappointed livery men, their complaisance and cordiality, wholly a thing of the past, were jubilant that I had been so imposed upon by some one, even if they had failed. And their looks, as they wheeled rapidly by me, as I crept along with the poor, suffering, limping "Nellie," were almost more than I could endure.
"Mother was up to Mallaby House for dinner a little while ago," interrupted Nellie, as though she had not heard him. "Yes? That's good. Fine place, ain't it? As I was sayin', I forgot myself " "They talked about us, too; mother says that's nearly all they talked about." "Must've been short of conversation. An' I want to say, Nellie, that I'll try never to speak like that to you again.
So thought Nellie, weeping there beside it, all the woman in her aching and yearning for this poor sickly little one.
"Well, it was hard work to draw him out, but finally he told me he had received a letter from the East, which made him think he would have to leave us. That isn't the worst." All were breathless, afraid to give utterance to the dread that until then was vague and indistinct in their minds. "He thinks he must take his daughter Nellie with him." "What! Take her away from us?
"Most of the men here do," responded Miss Nellie, without the least trace of coquetry. "Is the wedding or the hanging to take place first, or together, so he can officiate at both?" "His share in the Union Ditch is worth a hundred thousand dollars," continued her father; "and if he isn't nominated for district judge this fall, he's bound to go to the legislature, any way.
I am glad that we did not, for assuredly we should have found it very hard to school our faces so that they should not guess that aught was wrong." "That was why we said nothing about it, Nellie. It has been as much as I have been able to do to sit at table, and talk in the shop as usual, with boys I knew were robbing me; and I know honest John Wilkes must have felt it still more.
I gave her a religion, I taught her and explained to her the whole of the Catholic faith " "I hope you won't try to convert my sisters." "You do pull me up so! Don't you understand that I was very young then? I was only twenty, not much more; besides, I was engaged to Nellie." "Come back to what we were talking about."
"I guess I've made a mistake," said the woman; "is this Dr. Canady's?" "It is," answered Nellie, and the stranger continued, "Dr. Canady who married the widder Remington?" "The same," returned Nellie, thinking how unmercifully she would tease Maude should this prove to be any of her relations. "And who be you?" asked the stranger, feeling a little piqued at the coldness of her reception.
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