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All her life hitherto she had enjoyed splendid health; she was unacquainted with headaches; neuralgia, rheumatism, gout, the supposed banes of the present day, never troubled her. Now, however, she had absolutely an attack of the nerves. Mabel found her mother, on coming to wish her good-morning one day, shivering so violently that she could not complete her dressing. Loftus was not at home.
I've sat there, and," elevating her voice, "I've held you on my knee, Henry Bertram, and sung ye sangs of the auld barons and their bloody wars it will ne'er be green again, and Meg Merrilies will never sing sangs mair, be they blithe or sad. I'll be seen in this glen mony a night after these crazed banes are in the mould."
Het as he was, he took a kind o' cauld grue in the marrow o' his banes; but up he spak' for a' that; an' says he, "My friend, are you a stranger in this place?"
As to starting, we might take a boat and begin exploring at once, making day excursions. The longer ones would depend upon how soon Captain Banes could get the longboat ready." "By to-morrow morning would do for me, sir," said the captain bluffly. "But you would not be able to fix up the boat in such a short time." "There's really nothing to do, sir.
"Oh! there agin with your tin days but it's no use; yez understand me well enough, but yez don't want to bring the banes." "He tells you there is no more," said Raoul. "Oh! the desavin' Judas! and five hundred ov thim grazers atin' over beyant there. No more banes! oh, the lie!" "Frijoles no hay," said the Mexican, guessing at the purport of Chane's remarks.
Captain David Banes, a weather-beaten sailor of about forty, took off his Panama hat, drew a yellow silk handkerchief out of the crown, and dabbed the drops off his face, brow, and the top of his head, which looked as if it had been rubbed and polished till all the hair for a broad space had been cleared away.
Homes are stupid, homes are dreary, homes are insufferable. If one can be pardoned for the Irishism of such a saying, homes are their own worst "banes." If homes were what they should be, nothing under heaven could be invented which could be bane to them, which would do more than serve as useful foil to set off their better cheer, their pleasanter ways, their wholesomer joys.
"Eh?" said the American. "Yes, I suppose that's about the size of it." "Ship ahoy, there! What cheer, oh? Morning, sir," came from the brig, and Captain Banes, who had just come on deck, took off his hat and waved it, but stopped suddenly as he made out who was Brace Leigh's companion. "Morning, skipper!" cried the latter.
"I beg your pardon, Captain Banes," cried Sir Humphrey earnestly. "I did not mean to " "It's all right, sir; I deserved it," said the captain bluffly, "and I hope now he didn't hear. Poor beggar! It is his nature to. Now, gentlemen, what do you say to coming and having a look over your cabin and berths? All being well, they'll be your quarters for many a long month to come."
"Been below with the skipper, sir, and there won't be much the matter by this time to-morrow if the savages leave us alone." "It's my opinion," said Captain Banes, "that when the sun goes down a breeze will spring up; and I mean to get as far up as I can before it is too dark to see, for the sooner we're out of this neighbourhood the better."
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