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"We are drawing in very near to the coast, sir," said he. "It will be safer to keep the lead going." "But where the ship ahead can float so can we," observed Captain Lascelles. "She may manage to run in between reefs on which we may strike. Never let us trust to the leading of an enemy, sir," was the answer.
I scrambled on my feet, and would have gone aft, when the midshipman of the boat said to the men, "Pass that cursed young pirate forward don't let him come aft here." "Oh, oh, Mr Lascelles," thinks I "so you don't know me; you shall know me by-and-by." I quite forgot that I was stained black, till one of the men who seized me by the collar to pass me forward, said, "Hand along the nigger.
I will take care that you are in perfect safety, depend upon it, even if I run a risk. I should, indeed, be miserable, if, through my wild freaks, any accident should happen to Mrs Lascelles or Miss Ossulton." "I am very anxious about my father," observed Cecilia. "I trust that you will keep your promise." "I always have hitherto, Miss Ossulton; have I not?"
Two or three relations good-naturedly died, and Frank Lascelles became an earl; the lands did not go with the coronet; he was poor, and married an heiress. The lady died; her estate was settled on her only child, the handsomest little girl you ever saw. Pretty Florence, I often wish I could look up to you!
In the meantime, Miss Ossulton and Mrs Lascelles remained below, in the greatest anxiety at Cecilia's prolonged stay; they knew not what to think, and dared not go on deck. Mrs Lascelles had once determined at all risks to go up; but Miss Ossulton and Phoebe had screamed and implored her so fervently not to leave them that she unwillingly consented to remain.
"Why, Lascelles, you surely are not afraid?" he asked, looking me surprisedly in the face. "No, sir, I am not," I answered, rather nettled, "I am only prudent; and " "Pooh!" he interrupted lightly, "prudent! Me dear bhoy, prudence is a very good thing sometimes, but it does not do for such business as ours. A bould dash and have done wid it is the motto for us.
Guy started, and gathered up his reins, owning it was foolish. 'You look only half disenchanted yet, said Philip. 'Has Lascelles put you into what my father's old gardener used to call a stud? 'Nothing so worthy of a stud, said Guy, smiling and colouring a little. 'I was only dreaming over a picture of ruin
"Then we'll all take one together," cried the genial old Bob once more. "It's a bit cold standing here, don't you think, Mrs. Lascelles? After you with the match!" But I held it so long that he had to strike another, for I had looked on Mrs. Lascelles at last. It was not an obviously interesting face, like Catherine's, but interest there was of another kind.
Lascelles did not place her in this category at all. Nevertheless, the ensuing pause was long enough to make me feel uneasy, and my companion only broke it as I was in the act of framing an apology. "May I bore you, Captain Clephane?" she asked abruptly. I looked at her once more.
It was splendid even to remember, the ready outward obedience, the not less apparent indifference and disdain. There was a woman whom any man might admire, who had had it in her to be all things to some man! But Bob Evers was not a man at all. And this and this was his widow! Was she one at all? How could I tell? Yes, it was Lascelles, the other name in the case, to the best of my recollection.
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