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I never before saw him in such a way, and have not known what to do." Nelly on this darted in, and was soon by Paul's bedside, followed by her grandmother. Eban lingered about outside waiting. Michael at length came out to him again. "There is no use waiting," he said; and Eban, reluctantly going down to his boat, pulled away up the harbour.
"I am main glad if it be he, for poor Nelly's sake," said Reuben. "Pull up your starboard oars, lads, here comes a sea," he shouted, and a tremendous wave came curling up from the westward. The attention of every one was engaged in encountering the threatened danger. "Michael Penguyne! have I saved him?" muttered Eban Cowan, with a deep groan.
I thank you for all you have said to me, though I would rather you had left it unsaid; and I would wish to be friendly, as we have always been," she answered, firmly. "Is that the only answer you can give me?" exclaimed Eban. "I can give no other," replied Nelly. "Do you never intend to marry, then?" asked Eban. "I am not compelled to tell you my intentions," said Nelly.
Eban Cowan, however, had hitherto been ignorant of the fact, and had always supposed that Michael was Nelly's brother. This had originally made him anxious to gain Michael's friendship for her sake. Almost from his boyhood he had admired her, and his admiration increased with his growth, till he entertained for her as much affection as it was in his nature to feel.
Nelly then told Eban how Michael had gone away with the boat in the morning and had not returned. "I will go and search for him then," he said. "He has run in somewhere, perhaps, along the coast. I wonder, when you spoke to Uncle Lanaherne, that he did not set off at once. But I will go.
They were just leaving the town, when Eban Cowan overtook Nelly, who was in company with another girl a short distance behind Dame Lanreath. "Nelly," said Eban, "I was in a great fright lest I should miss you. You are going away without seeing half the fun of the day; the people are only just getting into the spirit of the dance. I wanted you to take off that creel and have a turn with me.
"I am glad he did go," answered Michael; "but do not call him my friend. If he was a true friend he would give me good advice and try to lead me aright; instead of that he gives me bad advice, and tries to lead me to do what I know is wrong. There you now know what I think of Eban Cowan." "And you think very rightly," observed Dame Lanreath.
Two more years passed away Nelly had become a pretty young woman, modest and good as she was attractive in her personal appearance. She had admirers in plenty besides Eban Cowan, who continued, as in his younger days, to pay her all the attention in his power, and openly declared to his companions his purpose of making her his wife.
Michael told him that he had been complaining since the morning, but he hoped the night's rest would set him to rights. "You won't want to go to sea to-night. It's blowing hard outside, and likely to come on worse," observed Eban. Though he called Paul "uncle," there was no relationship. He merely used the term of respect common in Cornwall when a younger speaks of an older man.
"The `Favourite, which has just come in, saw her driving, with her mast gone, towards the Gull Rock, and if she strikes it there is no chance for her or the poor fellows on board. Lord be merciful to them! we must do our best to try and save them, for no craft under sail will dare to stand near them, for fear of sharing their fate." Eban knew that Michael had gone away in the "Sea-Gull."
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