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Nelson complied without waiting for Jervis's orders, and on the 10th of July a detachment of troops, convoyed by his squadron, were landed in the island, and took charge, without serious opposition, of the town of Porto Ferrajo and the works for the defence of the harbor.
She was still fumbling with it when Jervis came back; but there was no connection in Jervis's mind, then or ever after, between the paper she had signed and this old cabinet, which was one of the old lady's toys.
He appeared at tea-time, carried in Mary-Nanna's arms, and with his head tied up in one of Mr. Jervis's cricket scarves. As he approached his family he tried hard not to look pathetic. And at the sight of her little son her whole brilliant world of happiness was shattered around Frances. "Nicky darling," she said, "why didn't you tell me it was really aching?" "I didn't know," said Nicky.
The relations thus formed and the confidences exchanged are shown by a touching incident recorded by Jervis's biographer. On the night before the battle on the Heights of Abraham, Wolfe went on board the Porcupine, a small sloop of war to whose command Jervis had meanwhile been promoted, and asked to see him in private.
And then, to her unutterable relief, she saw that Jervis looked exactly as usual, except that his face, instead of being pale, as it had been the last few days, was rather flushed. Words which had been spoken to him less than five minutes ago were also echoing in Jervis's brain, pushing everything else into the background.
"You are beginning to be of use to me, already," Emily said, as they turned into the corridor which led to the waiting-room. They found Sir Jervis's housekeeper luxuriously recumbent in the easiest chair in the room. Of the eatable part of the lunch some relics were yet left. In the pint decanter of sherry, not a drop remained. Rook's flushed face, and in a special development of her ugly smile.
Her poor little voice broke with these last words, and she burst into the frantic sobs which she had bravely kept back until now. "What in the world is the matter?" said Annie, kneeling down and putting her arm round the excited child. "Why, that's Dr. Jervis's carriage," shouted Boris. "What can be up?" "Why are you back so early from the picnic?" asked Nell. But Kitty sobbed on unable to reply.
One of Jervis's letters mentions, that the prince had given to each of the lieutenants a handsome gold box; to the lieutenant of marines and five of the midshipmen gold watches; and to the other officers and ship's company, a princely sum of money. "I pride myself," he adds, "exceedingly in the presents being so diffused; on all former occasions they have centred in the captain."
"Not half enough!" Emily answered. "Your story leaves off just at the interesting moment. I want you to take me to Sir Jervis's house." "And I want you, Miss Emily, to take me to the British Museum. Don't let me startle you! When I called here earlier in the day, I was told that you had gone to the reading-room. Is your reading a secret?"
But there is an item of positive evidence on this point which is important from having other bearings. It is furnished by the spectacles worn by Weiss, of which you have heard Jervis's description. These spectacles had very peculiar optical properties. When you looked <i>through</i> them they had the properties of plain glass; when you looked <i>at</i> them they had the appearance of lenses.
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