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Bradfort's heiress. Still, I own to so much weakness as to wish to know, before we close the subject for ever, why Mr. Drewett and your daughter do not marry, if they are engaged? Perhaps it is owing only to Lucy's mourning?" "I have myself imputed it to another cause.
On the whole, it was perhaps the more natural that she should love Andrew Drewett, one she met for the first time after she became of an age to submit to such impressions, than to love me, whom she had been educated to treat with the familiarity and confidence of a brother. Yes; I was even just enough to admit this. The scene of the morning, and the presence of Mrs.
"It is a wise rule, and a safe one; more particularly in connection with our own weaknesses. Then, it is but natural that Drewett should wish to secure Lucy; and if he adopt no means less manly than the frank avowal of his own attachment, surely there is no ground of complaint." I was rebuked; and what is more, I felt that the rebuke was merited. As some atonement for my error, I hastened to add
Andrew Drewett of the number?" I asked, with a precipitation of which I was immediately ashamed. Grace started a little at the vivacity of my manner, and then she smiled, though I still thought sadly. "Of course not," she answered, after a moment's thought, "or he would not still be in attendance.
Had a knife penetrated my flesh, I could not have winced more than I did; still, I affected a manner that was very foreign to my feelings. "What do you think of this young Mr. Drewett, boy?" asked Mr. Hardinge, with an air of confidential interest, and an earnestness of manner, that, with him, was inseparable from all that concerned his daughter. "Do you approve?"
"Well, Norton," said Rupert, a little affectedly as to manner, "you have got Drewett and myself down here among you traders, and I hope you will do the honours of the place, in a way to confer on the latter some credit. A merchant is nothing without credit, you know." "Have no apprehensions for your gentility, Hardinge," returned the person addressed.
There it was, however, swimming towards us, and even descending lower as if to pass beneath, in readiness for the fatal snap. Beneath it did pass, and I felt it pressing upward, raising Drewett and myself to the surface. As I got a glimpse of the light, and a delicious draught of air, Drewett was drawn from my neck by Marble, whose encouraging voice sounded like music in my ears.
Drewett, I must hasten to thank her to whom I owe my freedom; will you accompany me?" Andrew excused himself; and receiving my thanks, once more we parted with a hearty shake of the hands.
But, now for Lucy and her letters I dare say the last are filled with tender secrets, touching such persons as Andrew Drewett, and others of her admirers, which render it improper to show any of them to me?" Grace looked at me, with earnestness, as if to ascertain whether I was really as unconcerned as I affected to be.
He stopped an instant just at the small of the spar, to look back at Drewett, who was saying something to pacify his mother; and I observed that, as he stood with his heels in a line, the toes nearly met underneath the boom, which his feet grasped something in the manner of talons. A deep sigh reached my ear, as Neb bounded lightly on deck, and I knew whence it came by the exclamation of
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