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Then she played an air or two on a rude kind of harp, which Caleb had contrived for Bertha, and played them very well; for Nature had made her delicate little ear as choice a one for music as it would have been for jewels, if she had had any to wear. By this time it was the established hour for having tea; and Tackleton came back again, to share the meal, and spend the evening.
'I'm glad YOU CAN. I hope you can afford to work too. Hardly time for both, I should think? 'If you could only see him, Bertha, how he's winking at me! whispered Caleb. 'Such a man to joke! you'd think, if you didn't know him, he was in earnest wouldn't you now? The Blind Girl smiled and nodded. 'The bird that can sing and won't sing, must be made to sing, they say, grumbled Tackleton.
For he was a regular dog in the manger, was Tackleton; and when they laughed and he couldn't, he took it into his head, immediately, that they must be laughing at him. 'Ah, May! said Dot. 'Dear dear, what changes! To talk of those merry school-days makes one young again. 'Why, you an't particularly old, at any time; are you? said Tackleton.
"I have had but a poor night, Master Tackleton," returned the Carrier, shaking his head: "for I have been a good deal disturbed in my mind. But it's over now! Can you spare me half an hour or so, for some private talk?" "I came on purpose," returned Tackleton, alighting. "Never mind the horse. He'll stand quiet enough, with the reins over this post, if you'll give him a mouthful of hay."
Gruff and Tackleton was also there, doing the agreeable, with the evident sensation of being as perfectly at home, and as unquestionably in his own element, as a fresh young salmon on the top of the Great Pyramid. 'May! My dear old friend! cried Dot, running up to meet her. 'What a happiness to see you.
"Do you?" muttered Tackleton. "It's more than I expected. Well! On that account I want to join the party, and to bring May and her mother. I'll send in a little something or other, before the afternoon. A cold leg of mutton, or some comfortable trifle of that sort. You'll expect me?" "Yes," she answered. She had drooped her head, and turned away; and so stood, with her hands crossed, musing.
"I'm glad you can. I hope you can afford to work too. Hardly time for both, I should think?" "If you could only see him, Bertha, how he's winking at me!" whispered Caleb. "Such a man to joke! You'd think, if you didn't know him, he was in earnest wouldn't you now?" The Blind Girl smiled and nodded. "The bird that can sing and won't sing must be made to sing, they say," grumbled Tackleton.
How good she has been; how much she has done; how brave and strong a heart she has; let the happiness I have known under this roof bear witness! It will be some help and comfort to me when I am here alone." "Here alone?" said Tackleton. "Oh! Then you do mean to take some notice of this?"
After the delivery of which expressions, he retired again. The whole party would have experienced great difficulty in finding words for their astonishment, even if they had had ample time to seek them. But they had none at all; for the messenger had scarcely shut the door behind him, when there came another tap, and Tackleton himself walked in. 'Mrs.
'I have the humour, said Tackleton: holding up the fingers of his left hand, and tapping the forefinger, to imply 'there I am, Tackleton to wit: 'I have the humour, sir, to marry a young wife, and a pretty wife: here he rapped his little finger, to express the Bride; not sparingly, but sharply; with a sense of power. 'I'm able to gratify that humour and I do. It's my whim. But now look there!
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