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But Mart Tinman would stop, the fool! to-poor old boy! save his papers and things; and has n't a head to do it, Martha Cavely tells me. They're at him now! They've got him in! There's another? Oh! it's a girl, who would n't go and leave him. They'll pull to the field here. Brave lads! By jingo, why ain't Englishmen always in danger! eh? if you want to see them shine!"
The guest at Elba was busy in adding up the sum of his own impressions, and dividing it by this and that new circumstance; for he was totally in the dark. He was attracted by the mysterious interview of Mrs. Cavely and Annette. Tinman's calling and departing set him upon new calculations. Annette grew cold and visibly distressed by her consciousness of it.
He designated the two principal roads by which poor sinners come to a conscience. His own would have slumbered but for discovery; and, as he remarked, if it had not been for his heart leading him to Tinman, he would not have fallen into that man's power. The arrival of a young lady of fashionable appearance at Elba was matter of cogitation to Mrs. Cavely.
"Oh, I cannot say; do not distress me. Be friendly with papa," the girl resumed, moving to escape. "That is the essential," said Mrs. Cavely; and continued, when Annette had gone, "The essential is to get over the next few months, miss, and then to snap your fingers at us. Martin, I would force that man to sell you Belle Vue under the price he paid for it, just to try your power."
He is waiting at home to be told he may call on your father. Rank, dignity, wounded feelings, is nothing to him in comparison with friendship." Annette thought of the blow which had felled him, and spoke the truth of her heart in saying, "He is very generous." "You understand him." Mrs. Cavely pressed her hand. "We will both go to your dear father.
May I venture to inquire whether Mr. Tinman has presented his Address?" "The day after to-morrow. The appointment is made with him," said Mrs. Cavely, more officially in manner, "for the day after to-morrow. He is excited, as you may well believe. But Mr. Smith is an immense relief to him the very distraction he wanted. We have become one family, you know."
Cavely delivered a laugh supposed to, be peculiar to the English stage. "It would be a penny thrown away," said Annette. "I thought you could send a messenger." Intercommunication with Miss Fellingham had done mischief to her high moral conception of the pair inhabiting the house on the beach. Mrs. Cavely saw it, and could not conceal that she smarted.
Tinman despatched a business letter to Annette, which brought back a vague, unbusiness-like reply. Two days afterward Mrs. Cavely reported to her brother the presence of Mr. Fellingham and Miss Mary Fellingham in Crikswich. At her dictation he wrote a second letter. This time the reply came from Van Diemen: "My DEAR MARTIN, Please do not go on bothering my girl.
Cavely, purchasing furniture for Elba Hall. Mrs. Crickledon had no scruple in saying, that Mrs. Cavely meant her brother to inhabit the Hall, though Mr. Smith had outbid him in the purchase. According to her, Tinman and Mr. Smith had their differences; for Mr. Smith was a very outspoken gentleman, and had been known to call Tinman names that no man of spirit would bear if he was not scheming.
"Are n't your properties to be equal to one?" said Mrs. Cavely, smiling mother like from Tinman to Annette. He sought to produce a fondling eye in a wry face, and said, "Yes, I will remember that." "Annette will bless you with her dear hand in a month or two at the outside," Mrs. Cavely murmured, cherishingly. "She will?" Tinman cracked his body to bend to her.
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