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Updated: May 26, 2025
What if Patt what if my dear grandmother should recognise it! I would have given the handsomest trinket in my uncle's collection to get the flute back again into my own hands; but, before an opportunity offered for that, it went from hand to hand, as the instrument that had produced the charming sounds heard that morning, until it reached those of Martha.
"And if we don't have to go chasing an imaginary Spaniard or lug coal from the after hold forward, we'll be in luck," he continued. "What about the 'ship's bible'? What is 'general muster'?" queried half a dozen of us. "Why," said "Patt," "the ship's bible is the book of rules and regulations of the United States Navy. It is read once a month to the officers and crew of every ship in the navy.
As for myself, I continued to play as long as I thought any ear was near enough to hear me; then I laid aside my flute. In the next instant Patt was in my arms, where she lay some time weeping, but looking inexpressibly happy. "Oh! Hugh, what a disguise was this to visit your own house in!" she said, as soon as composed enough to speak. "Would it have done to come here otherwise?
The three girls, who were witnesses of what passed, too much respected Mary's feelings to interfere, though Patt restrained herself with difficulty. As to Tom Miller and Kitty, they doubtless wondered why "Warren's gal" was such a fool as to hesitate about accepting a watch that was worth a hundred dollars. This was another point they did not understand.
"Nothing that is disagreeable, I do assure you. Patt writes in charming spirits, and I dare say is in blooming beauty by this time, though she tells me that she is generally thought rather plain. That is impossible; for you know when we left her, at fifteen, she had every promise of great beauty."
As a matter of course, our dinner was not a very elaborate one, it wanting two or three hours to the regular time of dining, though my grandmother had ordered, in my hearing, one or two delicacies to be placed on the table, that had surprised Patt. Among the extraordinary things for such guests was wine. The singularity, however, was a little explained by the quality commanded, which was Rhenish.
'Mother Hubbub' will then open the blue-covered book that he carries, and read you things that will make your hair stand on end and cause you to consider the best wording for your last will and testament." "Patt" was very impressive, and we stood with open mouths and staring eyes. "When old 'Hubbub' opens the book, all hands, even the captain, will take off their hats and stand at attention.
Patt started seemed surprised; her cheeks flushed, and then I saw that pleasure was the feeling predominant. "Am I too late to secure that jewel, as a pendant to my chain?" I asked, half in jest, half seriously. "Too soon, at least, to attract it by the richness and beauty of the bauble. A more natural and disinterested girl than Mary Warren does not exist in the country."
But, if we had so charming an old woman to receive us, so are there also some very charming young women hey, Hugh?" "I am quite of your way of thinking, sir; and must say I have not, in many a day, seen two as charming creatures as I have met with here." "Two! umph; a body would think one might suffice. Pray, which may be the two, Master Padishah?" "Patt and Mary Warren, of course.
That Patt should cling to one like Mary Warren seemed to me quite as natural as that she should be averse to much association with Opportunity Newcome.
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