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Linda still remembered the pang with which she had first heard of Gertrude's engagement, and Harry Norman had not yet been able to open his seared heart to a second love. In the course of the evening a letter was brought to Captain Cuttwater, which did not seem to raise his spirits. 'Whom is your letter from, uncle? said Mrs. Woodward.
Woodward, my friend, my friend, was it well that thou shouldst leave that sweet unguarded rosebud of thine to such perils as these? They, also, commenced their wooing by talking over Captain Cuttwater; but they did not quarrel over him.
A moiety of this died with her, and the remainder would be but a poor support for her three daughters, if at the time of her death it should so chance that she should leave them in want of support. She had always regarded Captain Cuttwater as a probable source of future aid. He was childless and unmarried, and had not, as far as she was aware, another relative in the world.
'The Government! shouted Captain Cuttwater; 'oh! if we are to wait for the Government, the navy may go to the deuce, sir. 'It's the pressure from without that must do the work, said Alaric. 'Pressure from without! said Norman, scornfully; 'I hate to hear such trash.
She was thanked for the trouble she had taken, and told that Mr. Norman would do in the matter all that was necessary to be done. So she took her departure, and Linda returned to the drawing-room. Unfortunately Captain Cuttwater came in first. They none of them mentioned Charley's misfortune to him.
Captain Cuttwater had not seen much service afloat; that is, he had not been personally concerned in many of those sea- engagements which in and about the time of Nelson gave so great a halo of glory to the British Lion; nor had it even been permitted to him to take a prominent part in such minor affairs as have since occurred; he had not the opportunity of distinguishing himself either at the battle of Navarino or the bombarding of Acre; and, unfortunately for his ambition, the period of his retirement came before that great Baltic campaign, in which, had he been there, he would doubtless have distinguished himself as did so many others.
Linda said one little word of affectionate encouragement, but it produced no apparent return from Alaric. His immediate object was to recover Mrs. Woodward's good graces; and he thought before he went that he had reason to hope that he might do so. Of all the household, Captain Cuttwater was the most emphatic in his congratulations. 'He had no doubt, he said, 'that the best man had won.
She explained as much of this to the girls as she thought proper, and ended the matter by making them understand that Captain Cuttwater was to be received. On the Saturday after this the three scions of the Civil Service were all at Surbiton Cottage, and it will show how far Charley had then made good his ground, to state that the coming of the captain was debated in his presence.
Breakfast on Monday morning at Surbiton Cottage was an early affair when the young men were there; so early, that Captain Cuttwater did not make his appearance. Since his arrival at the cottage, Mrs. Woodward had found an excuse for a later breakfast in the necessity of taking it with her uncle; so that the young people were generally left alone.
In person Captain Cuttwater was a tall, heavy man, on whose iron constitution hogsheads of Hollands and water seemed to have had no very powerful effect.
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