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"Let me lie here and look at it.... Yes, put the candle near.... That was the deep hole, below the wheel, where the fish leapt.... Father would not allow us near it, for the danger.... There were steps up, and so many nettles.... Then above we got to the big pool where the alders were ... where the herons came...." A pause; then: "Phoebe dearest!..." "What, darling?"
But the captain had never run away from a fight yet; he had never abandoned a ship while there was a chance of keeping her afloat. And, besides, there was another reason. Phoebe Dawes had come to be his chief reliance. He saw a great deal of her.
You will hear people talk of me by my Christian name, as if we were most intimate; but don't believe it, Phoebe. I always felt aspirations towards a very different kind of life." "Oh, don't be afraid, mamma," said Phoebe, calmly; "I shall be able to keep them at a distance. You need not fear." "Yes, my dear," said the anxious mother; "but not too much at a distance either.
"Doan't 'e taake on 'bout Will, dearie; you'll come to knaw un better bimebye. I ban't gwaine so far arter all; an' it's got to be." Then the miller worked himself into a passion, dared Chown to take his daughter's boxes, and made a scene very painful to witness and quite futile in its effect. Phoebe could be strong at times, and a life's knowledge of her father helped her now.
One of the young men whom we had seen approached us, waving the brush of the fox in triumph, as if to upbraid my fair companion, "I see," she replied, "I see; but make no noise about it: if Phoebe," she said, patting the neck of the beautiful animal on which she rode, "had not got among the cliffs, you would have had little cause for boasting."
"It was that my Phoebe my sister oh, my dear sister! dead so many years ago sat by me here, as you sit now and we talked and talked of the old time and our young Squire, so beautiful, upon his horse.... Oh, but then but then!..." She checked herself suddenly, and a look of horror came in her face; then went on: "No, listen!
Everything else was flat after such a decided appeal to personal knowledge. Phoebe alone gave a frigid reception to the hero of the evening. "I dislike personalities," she said, pointedly. "They never do a cause any good; and it isn't gentlemanly; don't you think so, Mr.
Forgetting her shawl, and unmindful of the fact that the sun was streaming full on her head and face, she hurried to meet the woman who was ascending the avenue, and very soon they entered the house. A quarter of an hour elapsed ere Phoebe came out, and walked rapidly away; and, unwilling to prolong his suspense, Dr. Grey went in search of the governess.
In this he is doubtless encouraged by his mother, who is continually reminding him of what he owes to his family; for this same family pride seems doomed to be the eternal bane of lovers. As I hate to see a pretty face in trouble, I have felt quite concerned for the luckless Phoebe, ever since I heard her story.
I may carry wood for cooks, but I do not eat with them." "But, Ralph," said Miriam, "you ought to consider the circumstances. She is not a common Irishwoman, or German. She is an American, and has always taken her meals with the family in which she lived. I could not ask her to eat in the kitchen. You know, Mike takes his meals there since Phoebe has gone.
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