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Merrithew, "is that there has to be a young lady. You'd think a likely young man, if he met one of them things, would just kill it on general principles, the same as a snake or a spider." "Oh," said Peter, "it's chiefly because they are terrifying to young ladies that we kill them at all. Yes, there has to be a young lady."
Captain Merrithew and Mr. Howland stood on the bridge, while Virginia and most of her guests were assembled at the rail, all eyes straining shoreward. A rattle of musketry tore through the evening air a muzzle-loading cannon spoke grouchily; then all was still.
I knew you were from up country but I hardly dared to hope if you will permit me " He searched for his card which she accepted without looking at it. "You are Mr. Peter Weatheral, aren't you? Mrs. Merrithew thought she recognized you yesterday." "Is that why she glared at me so? But anyway I am obliged to her, though I haven't vestige of a recollection of her." "She didn't suppose you had.
Is he qualified to be a captain?" "Why, naturally; I haven't the slightest doubt of it. But Harrison will stay with the ship for two or three more trips to break him in thoroughly. Both companies by whom he was employed while in tugboat work speak of him in the highest terms. It's all rather a departure. But I feel I owe it to Merrithew; and besides, I have an idea he is the sort of man we want.
Ah, don't deny it," as Dan made a gesture. "I know! My life was in your keeping, to save it or let it go, as you willed. Daniel Merrithew, do you ever feel that now you have the right to be interested in that life that you alone saved?" "What do you mean?" Dan was looking at her curiously. The girl laughed excitedly.
He tried, more for the purpose of avoiding it than for any curiosity, to remember what he had ever heard of David Dassonville that would account for his daughter's teaching school when she evidently wasn't able for it, but he talked of Mrs. Merrithew. "I must call on her," he said, "as soon as she will permit me. But tell me, what business did I do with her husband?"
Virginia flushed eagerly and was about to say something, when some flashing thought, perhaps a realizing sense of their relative positions, closed her lips. "I remember very clearly now." She spoke quietly, then she closed her eyes for a second; when she opened them they were stern and hard. "Captain Merrithew," she said, as though to hasten from the subject, "I know we are in danger.
There was as much hesitation in Peter's speech as if it had really been the favour he seemed to make it, though in fact it grew out of his attempt to fashion his offer by what he saw in the dusk of Miss Dassonville's face. "In the evenings," he finished, "we could take it turn about. There are a great many evenings when I don't go out at all." "Me, too," consented Mrs. Merrithew cheerfully.
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