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As he spoke a stout gentleman opened the garden gate and walked up the path leading to the bower. At the same moment Miss Pritty issued from the house and echoed the green-grocer's boy's announcement. They were all silent as the stout gentleman approached. "What! can it be?" cried Edgar, starting up in excitement. "The captain!" exclaimed Mr Hazlit. "Impossible!" murmured Aileen.
"Happy day!" murmured Miss Pritty. "We intend," continued Aileen, "to go straight home I I mean to our old home, sell everything at once, and go to live in a cottage quite a tiny cottage by the sea somewhere. Now, I want you to come and visit us the very day we get into our cottage. I know you would like it would like being with me, wouldn't you?" "Like it? I should delight in it of all things."
"Are you deranged, child?" asked the lady. "No, ma'am, if you please; but Miss Pritty told me to be sure to offer you a cup." "To offer me a cup, child!" "Yes, ma'am. At least to offer a cup to any one who should call." It need scarcely be added that the lady declined the tea, and went away, observing to herself in an undertone, that "she must be deranged."
"Pirates!" cried Miss Pritty, turning deadly white, and preparing to fall into Edgar's arms, but curiosity prevented her. There could be no mistake. The bright glittering eyes, the black beard and moustache, the prominent nose, the kindly smile, the broad chest and shoulders, revealed unquestionably the captain of the Rajah's gun-boat.
"Waal, now," she said, making a great effort at self-control, "ye oughtn't ter mind it. Ye know he war powerful tried. I never purtended ter be ez sweet an' pritty ez the baby air, but how would you-uns feel ef somebody ye despised war ter kem hyar an' tote him off from we-uns forever?" "I'd cut thar hearts out," he said, with prompt barbarity.
"Laura, dear," said Aileen, "did you hear what the captain said to some one just now in the cabin, when the door was open?" "N-no," replied Miss Pritty, faintly. "I distinctly heard some one ask how fast we were going, but I could not make out his reply." "Oh!" exclaimed the other, brightening for a brief moment; "yes, I did hear him. He said we were going six knots.
I didn't exactly mean annihilation," returned Miss Pritty, with a pitiful smile; "I only mean that I wouldn't have had them come into existence, they seem to be so utterly useless in the world, and so interfering, too, with those who want to be useful."
Chezter, you will egscuse if that bride an' groom don't look pritty fresh; biccause eighteen seventy-three they have not change' their clothingg!" "Chérie," said Aline, "I think first we better read the manuscript, and then." After a breath of hesitation "Yes! read firs' and then. Alway' businezz biffo'!"
"A pritty hut, then, ye must have of it! Why do ye tolerate the vagabond? He's not fit for Christian society." "Oh! he's good company, sometimes, Mike. When you know him better, you'll like him better. Come; up with the bundles, and let us follow. The captain is looking after us, as you see." "Well may he look, to see us in sich company! Will he har-r-m the missus?" "Not he.
"By Jasus, and ye may say that with your own pritty mouth," remarked another veteran, who answered to the name of Lieutenant Murphy; "for it isn't now, while we are surrounded and bediviled by the savages, that any man of the rigimint should be after talking of bating a retrate."
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