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This arrangement had Joyce Harker's hearty approbation; but when he, too, had taken leave of George Jernam, he turned away muttering, "I think he really has forgotten Captain Valentine now; but I have not, I have not. No, I remember him better than ever now, when there's no one but me." The "Albatross" came safely back to the Pool in the early spring weather.
With pretty imperiousness she bore down Lady Eversleigh's grateful scruples, and the result was, that the two started that same evening, travelled as fast as post-horses could carry them, and arrived at Allanbay before even Lady Eversleigh's impatience could find the journey long. Susan Jernam had kept the child with her, and she it was who put little Gerty into her mother's arms.
"You might a'most drive over it on such a night as this," answered Black Milsom, "and not be much the wiser." The three men alighted, and Dennis Wayman led the vicious pony to a broken-down shed, which served as stable and coach-house in Mr. Milsom's establishment. Valentine Jernam looked about him.
Milsom told Dennis Wayman how he had discovered the captain sleeping uneasily, with his head upon the table; and on being pressed a little, Valentine Jernam told his dream as freely as it was his habit to tell everything relating to his own affairs. "I don't see that it was such a very bad dream, after all," said Dennis Wayman, when the story was finished.
Harker, for you or anybody, for I can't talk of anything but George and poor Valentine." "And I don't care to talk of much else either, Mrs. Jernam," said Harker, in reply; "so, you see, we couldn't possibly be better company for each other."
That's a very queer business, that is, and I've never had leisure to get very deep into the rights and wrongs of it yet." Mr. Larkspur looked up presently, and saw that his visitor's face had grown white to the very lips. "You knew Captain Jernam?" he said. "No yes, I knew him slightly; and the idea of his murder is very shocking to me," answered Honoria, struggling with her agitation.
When the clergyman reached the house, and lifted his hand to the bright knocker, he heard a sound of many and gleeful voices within a sound which died away as he knocked for admittance. Presently the door was opened by Mrs. Jernam's trim maid, who replied, when Mr. Colburne asked if he could see Mrs. Jernam, and if she were alone as a hint that he did not wish to see any one beside
"Yes; but then you see, mate, there are some men who never know how to take care of themselves when they get into bad company. There isn't a better sailor than Valentine Jernam, or a finer fellow at sea; but I don't think, if you searched from one end of this city to the other, you'd find a greater innocent on shore. I'm afraid of his having fallen into bad hands, Mr.
Of course Miss Rosamond Duncombe blushed on hearing herself thus apostrophized, as young ladies of eighteen have a knack of blushing when the possibility of their falling in love is mentioned. George Jernam saw the blush, and thought that Miss Duncombe was the prettiest girl he had ever seen. George Jernam stayed late at the cottage, for its hospitable owner was loth to let his friend depart.
"Captain George is right, though," answered the clerk. "Jernam Brothers are growing rich; Jernam Brothers are prospering. But you haven't told me your plans yet, captain." "Well, since you say I had better cut this quarter, I suppose I must; though I like to see the rigging above the housetops, and to hear the jolly voices of the sailors, and to know that the 'Pizarro' lies hard by in the Pool.
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