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Besides, William W. Kolderup desired the marriage. The two people whom he loved most in this world were sure of a fortune from him, without taking into consideration whether Phina cared for Godfrey, or Godfrey cared for Phina. It would also simplify the bookkeeping of the commercial house. Ever since their births an account had been opened for the boy, another for the girl.
A dancer of his ancestors had said that he only consented to set foot to the ground so as not to humiliate his companions, but Tartlet would willingly never have come down at all on the deck, whose perpetual agitation threatened to hurl him into the abyss. What an idea it was for the rich William W. Kolderup to send him here.
"Yes, the departure of Godfrey," continued Phina, "of Godfrey who, before he gets married, wants to see a little of the world!" "You want to go away you?" said William W. Kolderup, stepping towards the young man and raising his arms as if he were afraid that this "rascal of a nephew" would escape him. "Yes; I do, uncle," said Godfrey gallantly. "And for how long?"
"Everything is found by him who knows how to seek!" A few days afterwards there was celebrated with great pomp the wedding of the nephew and pupil of William W. Kolderup. That the young couple were made much of by all the friends of the wealthy merchant can easily be imagined.
He had lost all his usual self-possession, and tried in vain to recover it; he even tottered on the carpet of his room as if he were already on the floor of a cabin, rolling and pitching on the ocean. As for William W. Kolderup, since he had arrived at a decision, he had become very uncommunicative, especially to his nephew.
It should be borne in mind all through that the voyage of the Dream was carefully planned, and would be punctually performed. William W. Kolderup was too practical a man not to put to some purpose a journey of 15,000 or 16,000 leagues across all the oceans of the globe.
"But Carefinotu?" "Sham! Carefinotu was my faithful Jup Brass, who played his part of Friday marvellously well, as I see." "Yes," answered Godfrey. "He twice saved my life once from a bear, once from a tiger " "The bear was sham! the tiger was sham!" laughed William W. Kolderup. "Both of them were stuffed with straw, and landed before you saw them with Jup Brass and his companions!"
But it was not J. R. Taskinar's physical composition which interested the spectators in the room. It was something far different which excited them; it was that he had entered into direct public rivalry with William W. Kolderup. It was a fight of heroes, dollar versus dollar, which had opened, and I do not know which of the two coffers would turn out to be best lined.
Kolderup, where the animal came from?" said the celebrated taxidermist, presenting his bill. "No, I do not," answered Uncle Will. "But it had a label underneath its carapace." "A label!" exclaimed Godfrey. "Here it is," said the celebrated taxidermist. And he held out a piece of leather on which, in indelible ink, were written these words,
"Oh! indeed! a box! but then Phina must have had an accomplice " And Uncle Will turned towards Captain Turcott, who laughingly answered, "What could I do, Mr. Kolderup? I can sometimes resist you but Miss Phina it was too difficult! And four months ago, when you sent me to look round the island, I landed the box from my boat " "Dearest Phina!" said Godfrey, seizing the young lady's hand.
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