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Ethel found the state of affairs unfavourable to her. Norman was intent on a book on the sofa, and at the table sat Mr. Ernescliffe, hard at work with calculations and mathematical instruments. Ethel would not for the world that any one should guess at her classical studies she scarcely liked to believe that even her father knew of them, and to mention them before Mr.
"Are many of your reefs out there, Ethel?" "Harry can talk nothing but sailors' language," said Flora, "and I am sure he did not learn that of Mr. Ernescliffe. You never hear slang from him." "But aren't we going to Cocksmoor?" asked Mary, a blunt downright girl of ten. "We shall know soon," said Ethel. "I suppose I had better wait till after the reading to mend that horrid frock?"
But that is no reason against trying." "Good-night, then. Only one thing more. You mean that, till further orders, Margaret should not know?" "Of course," said Norman impatiently. "She won't take any of Flora's silly affronts, and, what is more, she would not care half so much as before Alan Ernescliffe came." "Oh, Norman, Norman! I'm sure " "Why, it is what they always say.
"I was much afraid of some answer that would rouse him, but she kept her self-possession beautifully, and seemed to compose him in a moment." "She is valuable indeed so much judgment and activity," said Mr. Ward. "I don't know what we should have done without her. But we ought to have Mr. Richard has no one sent to him?" Alan Ernescliffe and Norman looked at each other.
Ernescliffe, not far otherwise; he was as pale and slight as on his last visit, with the same soft blue eyes, capable, however, of a peculiar, keen, steady glance when he was listening, and which now seemed to be attending to Margaret's every word or look, through all the delighted uproar which Aubrey, Blanche, and Mary kept up round him, or while taking his share in the general conversation, telling of Harry's popularity and good conduct on board the Alcestis, or listening to the history of Norman's school adventures, which he had heard, in part, from Harry, and how young Jennings was entered in the flag-ship, as a boy, though not yet to sail with his father.
Some relations would be glad to receive them in London, and Alan Ernescliffe, who was studying steam navigation at Woolwich, volunteered to meet them, and go with them to Portsmouth. It was a wonderful event; Norman and Harry had never been beyond Whitford in their lives, and none of the young ones could recollect their papa's ever going from home for more than one night. Dr.
For five days the boats kept together, then followed a night of storms, and, when morning dawned, the second cutter, under command of Mr. Ernescliffe, had disappeared. There could be no doubt that she had sunk, and the captain could only record his regrets for the loss the service had experienced in the three brave young officers and their gallant seamen.
Mary Cheviot and Blanche Ernescliffe cannot be cured of a pitying 'poor Tom' as they speak of 'the Professor' in which title the awkward sound of Dr.
Ernescliffe must have been much more at rest for leaving my brother with so kind a friend, and " "Please, miss, don't say no more about it. Mr. Ernescliffe was as fine an officer as ever stepped a quarter-deck, and Mr. May here won't fall short of him; and was I to be after leaving the like of them to the mercy of the black fellows that was not so bad neither?
"Alan sent me to school at Miss Lawler's when my mother died, and there I have been ever since, while he has been these three years and a half on the African station." "What, is he in the navy?" "Yes," said the boy proudly, "Lieutenant Ernescliffe. He got his promotion last week.
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