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One of these 12,000 heroes having never been to sea before, or, at least, only once in his infancy, when he made the voyage to England from that unknown country where he was born one of those 12,000 the junior ensign of Colonel Quin's regiment of Fusileers was in a quite unheroic state of corporal prostration a few hours after sailing; and an enemy, had he boarded the ship, would have had easy work of him.
But Eleanor was not concerned with her companion or his silent transports. She evidently had something of importance on her mind. "What time is the officers' mess?" she asked. "About six. Why?" "I want to catch Captain Phipps before he leaves the hospital." Quin's glowing bubble burst at the word. She was Captain Phipps' girl, after all!
The collector reached Counsellor Quin's long before Simon arrived; and, when he presented Sir Hyacinth's letter, it was received in a manner that showed it came too late. Simon lost his place and his fifty pounds a year: but what he found most trying to his temper were the reproaches of his wife, which were loud, bitter, and unceasing.
"I've never seen sister like this before," Miss Enid told Quin. "She talks more in an hour now than she used to talk in a week, and she seems so happy." The change wrought in Miss Isobel's life by Quin's advent into the family was mild, however, compared to the cataclysm effected in the life of her sister.
She was all a lavender flutter, with sleeves floating and scarf dangling, and she wore an air of subdued excitement that made her almost pretty. "Why, Quinby!" she said, and her eyes swept him. "Have you spoken to mother yet?" "No; where is she?" "In the library. And sister will present you to the young ladies in the parlor." She hesitated a moment, then she placed a timid hand on Quin's arm.
"Then I cannot come either, and" he paused a moment, to add with decision "I object to your going unchaperoned." "Do you mean that you wish me to give up the box?" "You know what I mean." Hal was thoughtful a moment, and then remarked with sudden glee: "I know what I'll do. I'll take the Three Graces, and persuade Quin's aunt to come as chaperone.
Judy Quin's, next door to Mr. Pat Murphy, Boston, North street," told them to "Whisht and slape quite till they came forninst the place." "Such low people!" whispered Do to Flo, and both stood primly silent till they were tumbled into another mail bag, and went rattling on again with a new set of companions.
"I bet it hasn't been filled," said Cass; then, after the fashion of mankind, he lifted his voice in supplication to the nearest feminine ear: "Oh! Ro ose!" His older sister, coming to the rescue, agreed with his diagnosis of the case, and with Quin's assistance bore the delinquent lamp to the kitchen.
Randolph Bartlett, whose powers of resistance were never strong, was already lending a willing ear to Quin's persuasive arguments, when Eleanor and Mrs. Ranny descended upon him in a whirlwind of enthusiasm. They both talked at once, rushing him from one spot to another, vying with each other in pointing out the wonderful possibilities of the place.
Madam found him so amusing that she promptly detailed him as her special escort. "Eleanor can look after the baggage," she said, "and Isobel can look after Eleanor. The turtle-doves can take a taxi." And she closed her strong old fingers around Quin's wrist and pulled him forward.
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