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"That's like you," cried Bremner, who, being one of the principal masons, had to attend chiefly to the digging out of the foundation-pit of the building, and knew that his tools could not be sharpened unless the forge fire could be lighted. "Suppose you hammer a nail red-hot," suggested one of the men, who was disposed to make game of the smith.
Pup did not say, but he expressed such violent joy at being noticed, that he nearly fell off the platform of the mortar-gallery in one of his extravagant gyrations. "That won't do, Pup," said Bremner, shaking his head at the creature, whose countenance expressed deep contrition. "Don't go on like that, else you'll fall into the sea and be drownded, and then I shall be left alone.
The same evening Kirsty went to the castle, and Mrs. Bremner needed no persuasion to find the suit which the young laird had left in his room, and give it to her to carry to its owner; so that, when he woke the next morning, Francis saw the gray garments lying by his bed-side in place of David's black, and felt the better for the sight.
As he spoke another furious burst of wind shook the place, and a flash of vivid lightning was speedily followed by a crash of thunder, that caused some hearts there to beat faster and harder than usual. "Pooh!" cried Bremner, as he proceeded coolly to wash up his dishes, "that's nothing, boys.
"How should I know?" fretfully. "What ring did Mrs. Bremner give you money for? Did you have to sell one of your rings?" "Yes, I did." "Which one?" "Oh, don't bother me, Esther." "But I want to know which one." "It was the big red one!" called Jane from the hallway, where she had waited, safely out of reach.
"You are most fortunate in your choice of a pupil?" "Yes! Rita is a good-hearted little girl," I lauded unthinkingly. "I spoke to her once out on the Island," said Miss Grant, "but she seemed shy. She looked me over from head to heel, then ran off without a word. "Well, Mr. Bremner, days and evenings are much alike to some of us in Golden Crescent. Shall we say Wednesday evening?"
I could see that she was suffering from conflicting lines of reasoning. Her haughtiness changed and her eyes softened. "Mr. Bremner, what do I owe for the work, please?" she pleaded. "You are a gentleman, you cannot hide that from me." Discovered! I said to myself. "Surely you understand my position? Surely you do not wish to embarrass me?" Ah, well! I thought. If it will please her, so be it.
Bremner, master of the Eden, as well as several invalids, went home passengers in her: and I availed myself of the opportunity of sending home numberless specimens of articles used by the natives, amongst which were the following the model of a canoe, spears, fishing lines, and stone slings, made from the fibre of the bark of a tree, bracelets, armlets, and other trifling ornaments worn about their person; a knife, made out of an iron hoop, and fitted into a wooden handle; a bell-shaped wooden rattle, some small boxes, made of split cane, monkey skins, &c. &c.
But this soon passed away, as the men's eyes became accustomed to the change, and then the dark loom of the advancing billows, the pale light of the flashing foam, and occasional gleams of phosphorescence, and glimpses of black rocks in the midst of all, took the place of the warm, busy scene which the spot had presented a few minutes before. "Supper, boys!" shouted Bremner.
These were Peter Logan, the foreman, whose position required him to have a care for the safety of the men as well as for the progress of the work, and our friend Bremner, who had just descended from the cooking-room, where he had been superintending the preparation of supper. "It will be a stiff breeze, I fear, to-night," said Logan.
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