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"I understand," replied Mr Seagrave; "that shall be our task while you are absent." "Now, I have nothing more to do than to speak to Juno about dinner," replied Ready; "and then I'll just take a mouthful, and be off."
Seagrave, "Indeed, sir, we must no longer remain in this state of idleness; I have been thinking a great deal of our present position and prospects; as to the vessel coming back, we must, at present, give up all hopes of it.
As soon as they laid him there, Ready turned on his side, and threw up a quantity of blood. "I am better now," said he in a low voice; "bind up the wound, William; an old man like me has not much blood to spare." Mr. Seagrave and William then examined the wound; the spear had gone deep into the lungs.
Ready and William were then to cut down cocoa-nut trees sufficient for the paling, fix up the posts, and when that was done, Mr Seagrave was to come to them and assist them in railing it in, and drawing the timber.
In consequence of this conversation, William proposed at dinnertime that the next day they should go into the new house, as it was so much more handy to work there and live there at the same time. Mr. Seagrave was of the same opinion, but Mrs. Seagrave thought it better that everything should be tidy first.
Seagrave, "I think we shall be able to clear away quite enough ground in a week to put in all that we require." "The first job will be to pull up the small brushwood," said Ready, "and turn up the ground; the larger plants we must leave, if we have not time.
Mrs Seagrave had been shown how to load a musket, and Juno was now taught the same. "Now, sir, we are all prepared," said Ready, "and Madam and Juno can go and look a little after the children, and get breakfast."
Seagrave heard him without reply; and when he had finished, she threw herself in his arms and wept bitterly. Mr. Seagrave remained with his wife, using all his efforts to console her, until Juno reappeared with the children, for it was now getting late; then he returned on deck. "Well, sir," said Ready, when Mr.
Seagrave and Ready cut down the trees and slung them to the axle, and Juno and William dragged them to the spot where the house was to be built. They were not sorry when dinner was ready, for it was very hard work. That night, tired as they were, Ready and William went out, and turned eight more turtle.
The general opinion seemed to be that Geraldine Seagrave possessed all the beauty which rumour had attributed to her as her right by inheritance, but the animation of her clever mother was lacking. Also, some said that her manners still smacked of the nursery; and that, unless it had been temporarily frightened out of her, she had little personality and less charm.
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