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He saw British marines, headed by Captain Snipes and Lieutenant Matson, leap from boats and rush toward them as they stood on the beach. "Fly! Morgianna, fly!" he cried. She turned to run, and Fernando, all unarmed as he was, wheeled to face the foe. Suddenly there came a rattling crash of firearms. He saw Morgianna throw up her arms, and he sprang toward her, as she fell bleeding at his feet.
The thunder of guns, the whizzing balls, and shrieking shells were unheard in his great anxiety to defeat the British. Suddenly a hand clutched his arm, and a silvery voice, which he recognized in an instant, cried: "This is folly! Come down come down from this certain death!" "Morgianna, you here!" he cried. "For Heaven's sake, go to the bomb-proof shelter. You must not expose yourself here."
Had he looked up, he would have seen a decidedly mischievous look in the face of Morgianna, which certainly did not indicate that she was seriously affected.
Thus Fernando passed over a dangerous period in his life and never knew how near he came having his nose pulled; nor did the landlord ever know how near he came to being knocked down for such an attempt. Morgianna had spoken on one occasion of the beauty of moonlight on the seashore, and Fernando was bold enough to ask the pleasure of rowing herself and father to the headlands some evening.
Yet her joy at discovering her father increased her happiness almost to overflowing. "I am more blest than most girls," she declared. "I have two fathers, and while I will learn to love my new father, I will not forget to love my old father." The marriage of Fernando and Morgianna was celebrated the following autumn at the new church which had been erected over the Ashes of the former one.
"Terrence, are you telling me the truth?" he asked. "Ivery blissid word of it is the gospel truth, me frind," Terrence answered. "The little girl still lives at the village beyant Baltimore, and if ye want her, ye kin win her." "Terrence, you are trifling with me; Morgianna cares nothing for me." "Don't ye belave it. If she didn't, why did she ask about ye the very first chance she had?
The Xenophon followed two hours later, having first sent a boat to Duck Island for the lieutenant, who swore to shoot the Irishman at sight. There was no time for him to call on Morgianna and explain why he had not brought her the ducks, for soon after his arrival the ship departed for Halifax, where the commander had to give an account of his conduct at Baltimore.
Though a young man, there are gray hairs in my head, for it has been a living death since that night, Morgianna. Why have you " "Oh, don't, don't!" she plead, tears starting to her beautiful eyes. "Don't speak that way forgive me." "Morgianna!" cried Fernando, "Morgianna!"
"What!" interrupted Captain Lane, his eyes flashing fire. "Lieutenant Matson, do you wish to insult me?" "No, Captain Lane, I merely wish to secure the safety of Morgianna." "Morgianna! Morgianna!" called the old man, starting to his feet and pacing the floor anxiously.
The Englishmen met the Americans very cordially, and Lieutenant Matson, who was every inch a gentleman, did not dare be other than genteel in the presence of the lady he loved; for he was as passionately in love with Morgianna as was Fernando. The lieutenant was of a romantic turn of mind, and the mystery of the sea waif had interested him. He was quite sure she was the daughter of some nobleman.
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