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"'Gosh! that's it! interrupted Perkins, jumping up; then, recollecting himself, he sank down on the steps again, and shook with a suppressed 'Ho! ho! ho! "Hollins, however, drew himself up with an exasperated air. "'Shelldrake, said he, 'I pity you. I always knew your ignorance, but I thought you honest in your human character. I never suspected you of envy and malice.
"Shelldrake was a man of more pretence than real cultivation, as I afterwards discovered. He was in good circumstances, and always glad to receive us at his house, as this made him virtually the chief of our tribe, and the outlay for refreshments involved only the apples from his own orchard, and water from his well....
This beautiful species of shelldrake, though not numerous, has a wide range, extending from the richmond river to Cape York. It frequents the more open flats at the mouths of rivers and creeks. It deposits its honey in trees and logs, without any regular comb, as in the case of the former. The quantity of honey is sometimes very large, amounting to several quarts.
I was vexed with his levity, but, nevertheless, gave him a warning nudge with my toe, in payment for the surreptitious salt. "'That's just the notion I had, when I first talked of our coming here, said Shelldrake.
"Miss Ringtop heaved a sigh, and repeated a stanza from her favorite poet: "'Ah, when wrecked are my desires On the everlasting Never, And my heart with all its fires Out forever, In the cradle of Creation Finds the soul resuscitation! "Shelldrake, however, turning to his wife, said "'Elviry, how many up-stairs rooms is there in that house down on the Sound?
Eunice looked at him with laughing eyes, and shook her finger with a mock threat. "Shelldrake," continued Mr. Billings, without noticing this by-play, "was a man of more pretence than real cultivation, as I afterwards discovered.
The Arcadian plan had worked tolerably well, on the whole, for there was very little for any one to do Mrs. Shelldrake and Perkins Brown excepted. Our conversation, however, lacked spirit and variety. We were, perhaps unconsciously, a little tired of hearing and assenting to the same sentiments.
"'Hollins, said Shelldrake, 'Elviry's a good wife and a sensible woman, and I won't allow you to turn up your nose at her. "'I am not surprised, he answered, 'that you should fail to stand the test. I didn't expect it. "'Let me try it on YOU! cried Shelldrake. 'You, now, have some intellect, I don't deny that, but not so much, by a long shot, as you think you have.
Our road, which had been approaching the Sound, now skirted the head of a deep, irregular inlet, beyond which extended a beautiful promontory, thickly studded with cedars, and with scattering groups of elm, oak and maple trees. Towards the end of the promontory stood a house, with white walls shining against the blue line of the Sound. "'There is Arcadia, at last! exclaimed Mr. Shelldrake.
All minor personal repugnances were smoothed over in the general exultation. Even Abel Mallory became agreeable; and Hollins, sitting beside Mrs. Shelldrake on the back seat of the foremost carriage, shouted to us, in boyish lightness of heart. "Passing the head of the inlet, we left the country-road, and entered, through a gate in the tottering stone wall, on our summer domain.
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