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He could not repress a grin, and the housekeeper noticed it. "Seems funny to you, I presume likely," she said. "Well, now you think about it. This General Rolleson man was kind of proud and sot in his ways just as your grandpa is, Albert. He had a daughter he thought all the world of; so did Cap'n Lote. Along come a person that wanted to marry the daughter.
When General Rolleson came to that island and found his daughter and Robert Penfold livin' there in that house made out of pearls he'd built for her Wan't that him all over! Another man, the common run of man, would have been satisfied to build her a house out of wood and lucky to get that, but no, nothin' would do him but pearls, and if they'd have been di'monds he'd have been better satisfied.
Well. . . . Where was I? . . . Oh yes! When General Rolleson came there and says to his daughter, 'Helen, you come home along of me, and she says, 'No, I shan't leave him, meanin' Robert Penfold, you understand When she says that did Robert Penfold say, 'That's the talk! Put that in your pipe, old man, and smoke it? No, SIR, he didn't!
"Now there's General Rolleson in that book," she said. "Do you know who he makes me think of? Cap'n Lote, your grandpa, that's who." General Rolleson, as Albert remembered him, was an extremely dignified, cultured and precise old gentleman. Just what resemblance there might be between him and Captain Zelotes Snow, ex-skipper of the Olive S., he could not imagine.
Well, in that way, you see, he reminds me of General Rolleson in the book." "Look here, Mrs. Ellis. Tell me about this business of Dad's marrying my mother. I never knew much of anything about it." "You didn't? Did your pa never tell you?" "No." "Humph! That's funny. Still, I don't know's as 'twas, after all, considerin' you was only a boy. Probably he'd have told you some day.
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