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He also stated, what was indeed true, that he had always evaded explaining to the boy the real nature of the service upon which the lugger was employed; from which it may be inferred that, notwithstanding McElvina's defence of smuggling in our former chapters, he was not quite so well convinced, in his own mind, of its propriety as he would have induced Debriseau to suppose.
Consigning his daughter to his care, they removed to their own house, which was on the property which McElvina had purchased, and about four miles distant from the castle. McElvina's name was a passport to the hearts of his tenants, who declared that the head of the house had come unto his own again.
Och, och hone!" and the old woman sank on the floor, covering up her head, while Emily flew shrieking out of the room. When McElvina and his party quitted the castle, they returned to McElvina's house. "I cannot but pity Mr Rainscourt," observed the vicar; "indeed, I wish that, notwithstanding his violence, we had not quitted him without making the communication."
"We had better be off now, for our guns will be sure to bring down some of the cruisers; and if she surrendered, I could not take possession of her. Let's give her a parting broadside, and three cheers." McElvina's orders were obeyed; but not one gun was returned by the cutter "Starboard a little; keep her away now, and we'll close and stand ahead of her, that she may read our name on the stern.
In a few minutes, whether it was that the remedies were more effectual, or nature had resumed her powers, Emily opened her eyes, and was carried upstairs into Mrs McElvina's room.
Willy, who was tired out with the extreme mental and bodily exertion that he had undergone, gave no answer to McElvina's injunction, except a loud snore, which satisfied the captain that his caution in this instance was not heard. "Well," said Debriseau, after a short pause, "how long did this honest fit last?" "What do you mean? how long did it last?
Contented with his present lot, with the happy thoughtlessness of youth, he never permitted the future to disturb his repose or affect his digestion. Willy had been nearly a month at Cherbourg when McElvina's sloop took in another cargo. "Willy," said McElvina, one evening as they sat together in the apartment at the cabaret, "to-morrow I shall, in all probability, sail for the English coast.
"McElvina, I rather think," said he, musing; "but the postmark is Plymouth. How the deuce !" The two first lines of the letter were read, and the old man's countenance fell. Susan, who had been all alive at the mention of McElvina's name, perceived the alteration in her father's looks. "No bad news, I hope, my dear father?"
But as, independently of McElvina's letter not being sufficiently explicit, there are other circumstances connected with his capture that are important to our history, we shall ourselves narrate the particulars. For more than two years, McElvina, by his dexterity and courage, and the fast sailing of his vessel, had escaped all his pursuers, and regularly landed his cargoes.
"Then you must be a powder-monkey with me; you can hand powder up, if you can do nothing else." "I can do more," replied Willy, proudly; "I can roll shells overboard." "Ay, ay, so you can: I forgot that. I suppose I must put you on the quarter-deck, and make an officer of you, as Captain M intended to do." "I mean to stand by you when we fight," said Willy, taking McElvina's hand.
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