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"I know they must esteem it a great blessing that they have been able to keep one dear daughter in the old home." "And I esteem myself blest indeed in having had my dear father and mother spared to me all these years," Annis said, with feeling.
"Oh, all right," said Mr. Tillotson shortly. "What's wrong?" Annis hesitated, waiting to hear another voice, but in vain. She fancied that she heard another person breathing, but that was all. "Father!" she cried, suddenly. "It's me! Annis! Where are you?" There was a great shout from the other side of the cabin, and in the gloom she saw something spring up and come towards her.
We shall see, however, as it turned out, that all the honesty and high-minded purpose that invested it was in Benjamin's soul. Treachery, dishonesty, and perfidy blackened the soul of his patron, loading him down with infamy almost without a parallel. Three days before Captain Annis set sail, Benjamin called for his letters.
"She lieth at peace," interrupted the king, in a subdued voice. "I would not change it. How rich is this day in happiness! Ah, my Annis, thou shalt join thy sister soon thou'rt on thy way, and these be merciful friends that will not hinder."
All were delighted; cordial greetings on both sides were exchanged, and scarcely were these over when in a lady passing by Grandma Elsie recognized, with a little cry of joyous surprise, her old time friend and cousin, Annis Keith. "Annis! oh, how glad I am to see you!" she exclaimed.
The feast of the dedication was not free of Pharisaical invention. For as Tremellius observeth out of the Talmud, statuerunt sapientes illius seculi, ut recurrentibus annis, octo illi dies, &c.
Eleanor and Annis were entranced, and the Prioress, seeing that books had an attraction for her younger guest, promised her on the morrow a sight of some of the metrical lives of the saints, especially of St. Katharine and of St. Cecilia.
"All worthy Sancho's observations," said the duchess, "are Catonian sentences, or at any rate out of the very heart of Michael Verino himself, who florentibus occidit annis. In fact, to speak in his own style, 'under a bad cloak there's often a good drinker."
They reached Pleasant Plains early in the evening, landed the cousins belonging there, with the single exception of Miss Annis Keith, then turned immediately and went down the river again, reaching the lake about the usual time for retiring to their berths. The rest of their voyage was as delightful as that of the first day had been, and spent in a similar manner.
"You'll take a cup of tea before you go?" said Annis. She was standing before Mr. Glover as she spoke, and the skipper, who had been feeling more and more in the way, rose and murmured that he must go. His amazement when Miss Gething twisted her pretty face into a warning scowl and shook her head at him, was so great that Mr. Glover turned suddenly to see the cause of it.
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