ficient vindication be found in the exercise he affords our crews in the science of seamanship. She entered our noble river somewhat early on a fine July morning. Early as it was, two young
ro and dangling cloak, of which one fold was flung across his breast and drooped behind him. The line of an adolescent dark moustache ran along his lip, and only at intervals could you see that his eyes were blue and of the land he was nearing. For the youth was meditative, and held his head
see him! I haven't seen one for two years and seven months. When I 'm at home, I 'll leave my w
her nose aga
given anything to be a dairy-maid for half an hour! I used to lie and pant in that stifling air a
and shut her lips; sweet, cold, chaste lips she had: a mou
and after seeking to fill them with a doleful look, which was im
' and commenced tapping with his
ys the effort. Listening an instant to catch the import of
hat do y
ation. The doleful look, the superhuman indifference, were repeat
n England!' and then the cheerfu
d not be friends with me, because we've come back to Engla
not mean it! but he replie
Evan? Won't you promise me to come and stop with us for weeks? Haven't you said we
th the quiete
the dead-alive monosyllable, as he had done. 'Why are you so sin
ensitiveness induced the young m
hall not see each other every day. Nothing more than th
, sorry?' A shade of ar
ect something in her mind, an
You don't suppose we could see
ld have been addressed to the sentimental boy
ow; and that's why I liked you so much! Do change! Do, please, be lively, and yourself again. Or mind; I'll call you Don Doloroso, and that shall be your name
t to satisfy her minute
uched his h
hat you did for my poor drunken brother Bill, and you may take my word I won't forget it, sir,
to a faintly critical frown, and nodding intelligently to the boatswain's remark, that the young
ou turn away so ungraciously from Mr. Skerne, while he was thanking you for having saved
thanked because I
u have. Wouldn't my eyes have sparkled if anybody had come up to me to thank me for such a thing? I w
r Miss
ha
narrowed their enlarged lids. She g
tand you. I suppose it's
till I'm a w
h a burden to himself as he is an enigma to others. Evan felt this; but he could do nothing and say no
by a summons to b
ed. 'Now, what will you
s doesn
he this morning? bloomin
ster's manner constrained him t
at, I get three finge
, young
tical words of the respective greetings were employed, which
y, and suck with placidity, in the intervals of a curt exchange of French with the wife of the Hon. Melville, a ringleted English lady, or of Portuguese with the Countess; who likewise sipped chocolate and fingered dry toast, and was mournfully melodious. The Hon. Melville, as became a tall islander, carved beef, and ate of it, like a ruler of men. Beautiful to see wa
England again, and anything that belonged to her native land. Mrs. Melville perceived that it pained the refugee Counte
to hear the sweet
addressed the diplomat
d procured fre
aid he, glaring shrewd
shed to know how it was comprised. A passage o
hampton. He does not comprehend the word "expense," but' (
d the Hon. Melville, accustomed
e, may I ask, do you think?'
two hours before dark. Another reckoning, keenly balanced, informed the company that the
e, nodding general gratulation, '
untess's straining eyes under
wait upon Lord Livelyston
! certainly, too late tonight. A-hum! I think, madam, you had better not
untess, with a beam of
to place myself in y
aste of the diplomatist. He put
cant unit over here, you know; I, personally, can't guarantee much assistance to you-n
d the Countess, smiling, as at a
rest of them over here,' he ad
' continued: 'For over here, in England, we are almost friendless. My relations-such as are left of them-are not in high place.' S
e, and returned it, as one who
d a-a brewer! He is rich; but, well! such was her tast
tes with the opposite party,'
Silva's interest, he will assuredly so dispose of his influence as to suit the desiderations of his
, when he heard this extremely alienized idea of the nature of a member of the P
not-should not-forget it now. Had we money! But of that arm our enemies have deprived us: and, I fear, without it we cannot hope to have the justice of our cause pleaded in the English papers. Mr. Redner, you know, the correspondent in Lisbon, is a sworn foe to Silva. And why but b
, smiled perfect sympathy, and s
a small shopkeeper of s
he
low in his way,'
,' Rose exclaimed. 'I always keep out
pprobation of her exclusiveness a
y, my dear?' she asked
and so was Rose. They made an appointment,
Countess smiled
sper when I'm by
le to re-echo; but that lady thought it best for the moment to di
k with my brother on d
o harassed f
draw away from these people a little. We 've done as much as we could for them, in bringing them over here. They may be trying to compromise us. That woman's absurd. She 's ashamed of the brewer, and yet sh
said Mrs. Melville. 'Rose's inv
down to Hampshire?' The dip
ther,' said the d
ry good young fellow. Gen
said the dipl
ts us to keep him on, or pr
it did not matter; and as soon as the Hon. Melville saw that she was brooding something essentially femi
the admiration she could, without looking, perceive that her sorrow-subdued grac
benefactor early." To Rose you will say: "Be assured, Miss Jocelyn "Miss Jocelyn-"I shall not fail in hasteni
l him benefactor to his
my ch
nefactor at all. His pr
the post, because n
her who pushed y
, I'm sure I'm
in England. For your brother- in-law-I ask you, what sort of people will you meet at the Cogglesbys? Now and then a nobleman, very much out of his element. In short, you have fed upon a diet which will make you to distinguish, and painfully to know t
n said: 'Yes, and I should have liked to have told her th
utenant met her eye. Blandishingly she smiled on him: 'Most beautif
resumed, 'a
such a hypoc
o not love
resulted from a clear sequence of ideas i
igue for Silva; I look to your future; I smile, Oh heaven! how do I not smil
er hand, an
our pity?'
, my dear sister, I should
n! You are a Dawley!' sh
ossessing more of his mother's sp
would have betrayed yourself! and you would have said you were that! and you i
g confession became present to his mind. It was a clever stroke of this female intriguer. She saw him redden grievously, and bli
of course that you should go overboard after anybody, in your clothes, on a dark night. So, then, the Jocelyns took it. I barely heard one compliment to you. And Rose-what an effect it should have had on her! But, owing to your manner, I do believe the girl thinks it nothing but your ordinary busines
g before. By tender moonlight, in captivating language, beneath the umbrageous orange-groves, a Portuguese would have accurately calculated t
, 'one of them d
? And you-wha
him with her
old you, and you helpe
ceptions? Why d
ught him such a
a woman,' said the Co
e, enjoyed a quiet parade up and down under the gaze of the lieutenant, and could find leisure to note whether she at all struck the inf
matists that they fear none save their own sex. Men they regard as their natural prey: in women they see rival hunters using their own w
g your kind and most considerate attentio
her he hoped not, h
think of us foremost; but his argument I can distinguish. I can see, that were you openly to plead Silva's cause, you might bring yourself into od
it of the Portugal clime, and observed, confidentially, that, with every willingness in the world to serve her, h
s. 'He, poor boy! his career is closed. He must sink into a different sph
pinion of the young gentleman, his abilities, and hi
ice, the lady thus ob
manoeuvred for lack of a wife at his elbow, was quickly engaged in appeasing the great British hunger fo
g the cognizant air of one whose head is above the waters of events, to enjo
oad length of the serpentine haven of the nations of the earth. A young Englishman returning home can hardly look on this scene without some pride of kinship. Evan stood at the fore part
ind so beautif
the ships, and the houses,
hought you despised
trade, but tradesmen. Of
o and fro, and make the picture
ith a sort of fervour, 'Why do you always grow
ly jealous of this subject. He turned it off. 'Why, our feelings are just the same. Do you know what I was
nd I'm sure you never will. Of an Engli
d a true English lady than
answered, pertly; 'but "gentleman"
gentleman, m
so. Something you are, sir,
tion. His sister in her anxiety to put him on his g
ons, put an end to the colloquy of the young people. They were all assembled in a circle when the vessel came to her moorings. The diplomatist glutted with news, and thirsting for confirmations; the Count dumb, cour
ered, and they were preparing to move forward.
r Customs? I did imagine we were saf
n in a long brown coat and loose white neckcloth, spectacles on nose, which he wore considerably below the bridge and peered over, as if their main use were to sight his eye; a beaver hat, with broadish br
llow of the name of Goren wants you. Say
ed, and bow
I cut out your first suit for you when you were breeched, thou
he chapter of facts this name should
that when he spoke a word of two syllables, commenced with a lugubriou
'm not the best messenger for such tidings. It
but Rose remained beside the Countess, who breathe
ke care of the shop. He 's to be buried in his old uniform. You had better c
at had fallen, the Count
is un
on. 'Thanks! thanks!' was murmured in his ear. 'Not a word more. Evan cannot be
ckon in a glance how much Rose had heard, or divined. She had to mark whether the Count h
' and preserved herself from weeping her heart out, that none might guess the thing who did not positively know it. Evan touched the hand of Rose without meeting her eyes. He was soon cast off in Mr. Goren's boat. Then the Countess murmured final adieux; twilight under her lids, but yet a smile
it to the darkness of their common exile. She wept: but in the excess of her misery, two words of strangely opposite signification, pronounced by Mr. Goren; two words that w
ne last kiss! Oh! how she hoped that her inspired echo of Uniform, on board the Joc