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McElvina, perceiving their discontent, ordered the men aft, and addressed them: "My lads, I have often been in a worse scrape, and have weathered it; nor do I know but what we may yet manage to get out of this, if you will pay strict attention to my orders, and behave in that cool and brave manner which I have reason to expect from you.
In a few minutes she returned, having boarded the Abigail of Mrs McElvina just as she was coming to an anchor inside the bar; and, having made an interchange of intelligence, with a rapidity incredible to those who are not aware of the velocity of communication between this description of people, re-entered the parlour, to make a report to her commanding officer, precisely at the same moment that Susan's maid was delivering her cargo of intelligence to her own mistress.
"Well, it's a bad business," continued old Hornblow. "Wilmott!" Let me see Belle Susanne I wonder why the fool called her by that name, as if I had not one already to take money out of my pocket. Oh! here it is folio 59 continued, folio 100, 129, 147, not balanced since April last year. Be quick, and strike me out a rough balance-sheet of the lugger." "But what does Captain McElvina say, father?"
In the meantime, I shall make the necessary affidavits, in case of accident." McElvina and the vicar separated. McElvina, like a dutiful husband, communicated the joyful intelligence to his wife, and his wife, to soothe Emily under her affliction, although she kept the secret, now talked of Seymour.
Of whom and what she was thinking was, however, soon manifested to McElvina; for she commenced scribbling and drawing with her pen on the blotting-paper before her, until she at last wrote several times, as if she were practising to see how it would look as a signature: "Susan McElvina." "Susan McElvina." "Susan McElvina."
The crew of the lugger were now summoned on deck by the call of the boatswain, and having been addressed by Captain McElvina upon the absolute necessity of activity and preparation, in a service of such peculiar risk, they loaded the guns, and secured them for the night.
McElvina and Susan are supporting the sufferer in his last agonies; and as he writhes, and his beseeching eyes are turned towards them, supply the water, which but for a moment damps the raging fire within. The surgeon has retired from his useless and painful task habituated to death, but not to such a scene as this.
On the following day, Captain Debriseau accompanied Willy to the pension, where our hero remained nearly five months, occasionally visited by the Guernsey captain, when he returned from his smuggling trips, and more rarely receiving a letter from McElvina, who had safely landed his cargo, and was latterly at Havre, superintending the fitting out of his new vessel.
"Thank you, Captain M ," replied McElvina, smiling; "but, although on a smaller scale, I have long been accustomed to command; and I should be very sorry that a vacancy should occur in the only situation I would accept."
"We do not expect otherwise, Mr Rainscourt," replied McElvina, "but we think it will not be necessary that it should go into court." "Mr McElvina," interrupted Rainscourt, angrily, "I wish no observations from you. After your intimacy with the family, particularly with my daughter, who, by your means, will probably forfeit all her prospects, I consider your conduct base and treacherous.
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