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The door was opened by an elderly woman, thin, and somewhat querulous in expression. Mr. Catesby had just time to notice this, and then he flung his arm round her waist, and hailing her as "Mother!" saluted her warmly. The faint scream of the astounded Mrs. Truefitt brought her daughter hastily into the passage. Mr. Catesby's idea was ever to do a thing thoroughly, and, relinquishing Mrs.
"Am I so altered that you don't know me, Prudence?" inquired Mr. Catesby; with pathos. "Don't you know your Fred?" "Go out," said Mrs. Truefitt, recovering; "go out at once." Mr. Catesby looked from one to the other in consternation. "I know I've altered," he said, at last, "but I'd no idea " "If you don't go out at once I'll send for the police," said the elder woman, sharply. "Prudence, scream!"
In a week the two old shipmates found themselves appointed to the "Pallas" frigate, nominally of thirty-two guns, though in reality mounting thirty-eight. Of course Job Truefitt and Bob Doull followed them. Ronald had been puzzled to know how to dispose of the elder Doull and Archy Eagleshay, when the two old men applied to enter.
I saw you standing in the window, and I could see at once that you were beautiful, and good, and kind." "I never heard of such impudence," continued Miss Truefitt. "I surprised myself," admitted Mr. Catesby. "In the usual way I am very quiet and well-behaved, not to say shy." Miss Truefitt looked at him scornfully. "I think that you had better stop your nonsense and go," she remarked.
"Mother," said Mr. Catesby, with great pathos, "don't you know me?" "He has brought bad news of Fred," said Mrs. Truefitt, turning to her daughter; "I am sure he has." "I don't understand you," said Mr. Catesby, with a bewildered glance from one to the other. "I am Fred. Am I much changed?
"Your face tells me," said the infatuated Richard. "I hope you will forgive me for my rudeness last night. It was all done on the spur of the moment." "I am glad you are sorry," said the girl, softening. "All the same, if I hadn't done it," pursued Mr. Catesby, "I shouldn't be sitting here talking to you now." Miss Truefitt raised her eyes to his, and then lowered them modestly to the ground.
"So will I, Mr Morton," said a seaman who had kept by the two midshipmen from the moment he had got his liberty, and had moreover possessed himself of the capstan bar, to serve him as a trusty weapon in case of need. "Thank you, friend Truefitt," said Morton: "come along."
"You'll be back by nine, I suppose." Mrs. Truefitt assented. "And you won't be leaving before seven," continued Prudence. "I shall be all right." Mr. Catesby's face glowed and his eyes grew tender; Prudence was as clever as she was beautiful. The delicacy with which she had intimated the fact of the unconscious Mrs. Truefitt's absence on the following evening was beyond all praise.
"Oh, lor'! and it's lovely!" said Maria, sotto voce, as she was leaving the room. "What an unpleasant smell of peppermint!" said Miss Truefitt, sniffing at that moment. "You know, Stephanotie, how I have begged of you not to eat those unpleasant sweets in the dining room." "I didn't," said Stephanotie; "it was only Maria."
He was always ready to do a good-natured action, to take a brother officer's watch, or to give up his own leave to accommodate another. Before the mast there were several hands who had served in the "Thisbe," when commanded by Captain Courtney. Two had attached themselves especially to Ronald one was Job Truefitt, and the other Bobby Doull.
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