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While Plinny cultivated the Muse and with the more zest as, to her pride and delight, she found herself immune from sea-sickness I kept up, through the long mornings, the pretence of studying mathematics with Captain Branscome, and regularly at noon received a lesson in taking the ship's bearings.
"'Your son Harry, sir, said I, 'some time ago gave me a message from you. "'Yes, said he, but still with a something in his voice between wonder and suspicion; 'that's true enough. I have always retained the highest respect for Captain Branscome, and by your voice you are he. But but He hesitated, and fired another question point-blank at me: 'You come from Falmouth? "'I do, sir. "'Alone?
"It appears to me that we need it, at any rate," said Miss Belcher, tartly, "if we are to be favoured just now with a lecture." Dr. Beauregard smiled. "The purport of my lecture, ma'am, was to prepare you for a question which I have to put. When these men arrive, Captain Branscome, Mr. Goodfellow, and I must deal with them. Are you ladies prepared to exercise strong self-control?
"And so womanly!" assented Captain Branscome, to my entire surprise. "Indeed, sir," I stammered. "Well, I have heard people say Mr. Rogers for one that Miss Belcher ought to have been born a man." "Miss Belcher? Why, heavens alive, boy, I was referring to Miss Plinlimmon!" He dismissed me with a wave of the hand, but called me back as I turned to the door.
"Oh, oh!" said I. "So Mr. Goodfellow, too, knew of this? And Plinny, I suppose? And, in fact, you told every one but me?" "No, sir," said Captain Branscome, gravely; "I did not trouble Miss Plinlimmon with these perhaps unnecessary fears. To a lady of her sensitive nature "
Were such a request proffered to me even at the cannon's mouth, I trust my courage would find an answer. 'No, no, I would say, "'I will not bow within the House of Rimmon: Yours faithfully, Amelia Plinlimmon." As we reached the head of the companion-ladder Captain Branscome, who was standing just aft of the wheel, behind Mr.
You know you must know that I would have come, whatever the consequence. Why did you not send for me after, after ?" "Why did I not send for you?" Mrs. Branscome took him up, repeating his words mechanically, as though their meaning had not reached her. "You don't mean that you never received my letter. Oh, don't say that! It can't have miscarried, I registered it." "Then you did write?"
Nothing indicated her presence, unless it were the dainty feminine furniture of the drawing-room. "I've a strong sense of the right of property," said Miss Belcher, sipping her tea and touching the oilskin wrapper, which lay in her lap unopened as Captain Branscome had handed it to her; and so has Jack Rogers here.
"I speak as a bachelor, but in my experience there is a half-hour before lunch in which that man is best appreciated who makes himself scarce. Captain Branscome, if you will not mind a short scramble over the rocks here, to the left, I can promise you something worth seeing." But the distance was not far.
Marston, a complacent widower of some five-and-thirty years, and Branscome's fellow servant at the Admiralty. Hilton's attention was attracted to this man by the air of embarrassment with which Mrs. Branscome received his approaches.
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