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Papa said it meant something like that when I asked him once; and we have lived in so many countries that I can't remember all the names." "How nice to have lived in lots of different countries," said Dan. "When I'm a man I mean to be an explorer and go to every country in the world." Norah looked a little unhappy.
His joy was the greater when Norah and Karl rushed in and dragging him to the stables showed him the pile of gold. "I'll be for taking it to the bank at once," he said, "you never know but what it may melt away, or turn into a heap of leaves, I've read stories like that." "Our wedding shall be next week," said Karl, joyfully.
Norah was not free from anxiety with regard to her father, who had sufficiently recovered his strength to come on deck and carry on duty, but she longed to get him safe on shore, where alone she believed he would be restored to his usual health.
The laughing child crooned and spluttered and shook its head, as though it was playing some happy game. It looked first at Norah, then at Jean Jacques, then at Norah again, and then, with a little gurgle of pleasure, stretched out its arms to her and half-raised itself from the pillow. With a glad cry Norah gathered it to her bosom, and triumph shone in her face.
"Perhaps Gerald's account is exaggerated," remarked Norah, observing Ellen's agitation. "If the ship is the Champion, Mr Ferris is sure to go down and visit her; he will ascertain the truth of the report." "I must I must go and tell him what has happened, in case he should not have heard it," said Ellen, rising. She found Mr Ferris in his counting-house, on the ground-floor.
Norah had at once succumbed to the charms of the baby, and as the baby seemed similarly impressed with Norah, it had been hard to remove him from her arms even for purposes of nourishment for either. She had quite seriously proposed to take him to the match, and had been a little grieved when his mother hastily vetoed the proposition. As mother of three babies, Mrs.
Tell me this instant. He looked so wild, so mad, so desperate, that Norah felt herself to be in bodily danger; but her time of dread had gone by. She had been afraid to tell him the truth, and then she had been a coward. Now, her wits were sharpened by the sense of his desperate state. He must leave the house.
"That would never do," answered Gerald; "you might be hit as well as anybody else, and you wouldn't like to have a leg or an arm shot off." Poor Norah shuddered at the thoughtless remark of her brother. Gerald observed the expression of her countenance.
"But, mother, where is the harm if I look for meself a bit? Who can see Norah, so gentle and loving, so careful o' you and me, so pleasant to every one, and not want to know more o' the way she has taken?" "Yes, yes, lad; but have ye no sense at all? What if ye have been tould a secret, can ye not kape it the same? "Yes; but, mother, what if I myself learn to " "Hush!
When he got up to go Norah said casually: "Well, I shall see you tomorrow, shan't I?" "Yes," he answered. He knew that he would not be able to come, since he was going to help Mildred with her moving, but he had not the courage to say so. He made up his mind that he would send a wire.
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