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It was matter of sincere regret to me that the unexpected arrival of my family at the very time prevented my hastening to offer my best services to you and yours. The magistracy will, of course, repair all damages; and then I trust no evil consequences will survive. "I beg my best compliments to Mrs Hope and Miss Ibbotson, and entreat you to believe me, my dear sir, "With the highest respect,
"I don't mean that: you will soon see him very well now. He is going to be married, Ritson " "What, is he? Well " "To my cousin, Miss Ibbotson. He will be more at our house, you know, than anywhere else." And with a wink which was a very good miniature of her mother's Sophia passed on, leaving Ritson to bless Mr Hope and the pretty young lady.
"My dear, I wish you would not tease me with what the Greys say. They say very little that is worth repeating." "Well, but you must hear this, mamma. Fanny and Mary were walking with Sophia yesterday, and they met Mrs Hope and Miss Ibbotson in Turn-stile Lane; and Mrs Hope was crying so, you can't think." "Indeed! Crying! What, in the middle of the day?" "Yes; just before dinner.
"The moment the boatswain and carpenter are clear of the vessel, we will suggest that another line ought to be carried to some other vessel; and Mr. Carboy will see the necessity of the measure." "Perhaps he won't see it," interposed Ibbotson. "Then I'll fall overboard." "Fall overboard?" "Precisely so," replied Little. "I don't see what that has to do with it," said Herman. "Don't you?
He came; and in reply to his astonishment about what she could mean, Mrs Rowland said that she did not deny that there was some present entanglement; but that she warned Margaret's connections not to suppose that her brother would ever be married to Miss Ibbotson. Mr Grey observed that time would show, and inquired after Mrs Enderby. The report of her was very flattering indeed.
"Here comes Phoebe Phoebe, I have been very silly, and I hardly know what about, I declare. My dear!" she exclaimed as she felt tears drop upon the hand which Margaret was chafing "my dear Miss Ibbotson " "Oh! call me Margaret!" "But, my dear, I am afraid there is something the matter, after all. Something has happened." "Oh, dear, no, ma'am!" said Phoebe.
"If he had only sent you a circular letter of credit, you could draw almost anywhere," said Herman. "Well, if we can't raise any money on the letter, I have a gold watch that cost about a hundred dollars in New York. I can raise two hundred francs on it, and redeem it when we come back," continued Ibbotson. "That's the talk!" exclaimed Little. "I like to see energy in a fellow.
The wind was a little lighter, and, in addition to the top-gallant-sail, the fore square-sail was set, so that her speed was at no time less than ten knots, and most of the time it was twelve. "What do you make of it now, Little?" said Ibbotson, just before noon on the second day out. "Do you think we shall get back to Brest in a day or two?" "Of course we shall." "Bah! What's the use of talking?
Mrs Rowland sent Ned to desire the servant to open the door for Miss Ibbotson; and Margaret took her seat on a chair on the landing, saying that, relying on her title to be admitted to Mrs Enderby, at the desire of her old friend herself, and of all the family but Mrs Rowland, she should wait till she could obtain admittance.
No longer is their vesture white and virginal; now they bloom as a matron and a queen, gloriously arrayed in a seamless robe of purple heather. Such were the surroundings amid which Peregrine Ibbotson had spent three quarters of a century, and he asked for nothing better than that he should end his days as a Yorkshire shepherd.
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