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If this had been done, our flight would have been, at least, less precipitate." "You forget, Mr. Wolston," said the captain, "that we did not know till nine o'clock the affair was to come off to-night." "And I could not come any sooner to tell you," remarked the Pilot; "I had the greatest difficulty in the world to get in here; the maritime commissary would not take me into custody."
"Mr. and Mrs. Wolston, greeting, desire the favor of Mr. and Mrs. Becker's company to dinner, together with their entire family, this day se'nnight, weather permitting." Ernest was hereupon consulted, and stated that, in so far as the rain was concerned, they should in eight days be able to undertake the journey to Rockhouse.
The Pilot, meantime, endeavored to introduce a few drops of brandy between the lips of the patient. Fritz stood trembling like an aspen leaf and deadly pale; he regarded these operations as if his own life were at stake, and not the patient's. "There remains only one other course to adopt, Mrs. Wolston," said Becker, "you must endeavor to bring your daughter to life by means of your own breath."
Wolston, "of drawing the fish out of the sea ready cooked, puts me in mind of an incident of college life which, with your permission, I will relate." "Oh yes, papa, a story!"
"I am persuaded," rejoined Mrs. Becker laughing, "that there are no calumniators in the world like mothers." "Therefore, mamma, to punish you we shall come and kiss you." And accordingly Mrs. Wolston was half stifled under the embraces of her two daughters. "I am certainly not the offender," said Mrs.
"That he does not smoke here," remarked Becker, "I can easily understand; but why conceal it?" "Ah," replied Mrs. Wolston, "you do not know Willis yet; beneath that rough exterior there are feelings that would grace a coronet: he is, no doubt, afraid of leading your sons into the habit." "That is very thoughtful and considerate on his part."
She got on, however, tolerably well with ostlers, stable-boys, cabmen, and such like, because they could treat her in her own style, and were not ruffled by her abuse." "How amiable!" exclaimed Mrs. Wolston. "Herbert heard of this young person, and, through a fast friend of his own, obtained an introduction to her, and on the very first interview he offered her his hand.
It was decided that Wolston and his family should be quartered at Rockhouse, whilst Becker and his family should pass the rainy season at Falcon's Nest, where, though these aerial dwellings were but indifferently adapted for winter habitations, they had passed the first year of their sojourn in the colony.
Wolston, her daughters, and husband, quite a new world of sympathies and consolations, by which our island has been so miraculously peopled." "Go then, husband, and may God bring back in safety both the pinnace and the Nelson!" "By the way, Mrs. Wolston, how does our worthy invalid get on?
"It is all very well for you, Mrs. Wolston, and you, Mrs. Becker, to talk in that way; your business in life is that of wives and mothers. But what will the Lords of the Admiralty say, when they hear that the sloop Nelson was wrecked whilst Master Willis, the boatswain, was skulking on shore like a land-rat?"
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