hen she heard the thunder of the waves hard by. She fancied it had been a most agreeable dinner to her father and Mr. Herbert Fellingham-especially to the latter, who had laughed ver
st is exceedingly so," s
most unromantic liqui
Van Diemen, puzzled by
a little like his ol
ingly," said M
irical last night," Ann
d him I thought he was
rd gentleman for my tutor; and I know you accepted French and Engl
ruction money could procure; and if she says you
rse!" Mr. Fellingham rejo
nman's pronunciation; of how, like somebody else's hat in a high wind, it descended on somebody else's head, and of how his words walked about askin
her father, and d
ved that he was enjoi
fun; upon which Van Diemen sai
ould with
wine!" Van Diemen burs
'm in a shocking bad t
bili
went grumbling, complaining of Mart Tinman's incredulity abou
nature of her father in his friendships, and his indisposition to hear a sati
t burlesque. He's as distinctly made to
"and papa has been told that he is not
rize him
happy to be in England to
not touch
h so much impo
nman's wine," observed Mrs. Crickledon, who had come i
shed, for Mr. Van Diemen Smith had gone to lay down his poor aching head
r. Tinman from the lips of Mrs. Crickledon. He subsequently strolled
too much," sa
ever, he was naturally bound to ans
!" Mr. Fellingham said to Annet
not to laugh at
outside, and one has to remember half a dozen great names to right oneself. And Englishmen are so funny! Your father comes here to see his old friend, and begins boasting of the Gippsland he has left
en you came to the drawingroom. Perhaps the wine did affect poor papa, if it w
to be social meetings in E
nearly as enthusiastic as I was on b
he chiwal-glass! And that good fellow, the carpenter, Crickledon, who has lived with the sea fronting him all hi
one-of a real Englis
gland a few months you
tin
ev
will be quite c
eel it when I was three years old, going out to Australia; but it would
he could with the wind in his teeth, "I love the
nt England to be love
is in yo
ndifferent o
ract, but a latent spite at Tinman on account of his wine, to which he continued angrily to attribute as unwonted dizziness of the head and sl
titled widow, Lady Ray, as she had heard, and to other ladies young and middle-aged in the neighbourhood, why should he not, if he wished to marry? If he was economical, surely he had a right to manage his own af
is thoughts of her reduced her to the conditi
After a while he sniffed the fine sharp air of mingled earth and sea delightedly, and he strode back to the town late in the afternoon, laughing at himself in scorn of his wretched susceptibility to bilious impressions, and really all but hating Tinman as the cause of his weakness-in the manner of the criminal hating the detective, perhaps. He cast
and Mr. Tinman as to payment for the chiwal-glass. She was commissioned to offer half the price for the glass on her father's part; more he would not pay. Tinman and Phippun sat with her in Cri
that he should pay a penny. Phippun vowed that fr
istress, and Fellingham postpon
pained by Mr. Fellingham's cruel jests. It was monstrous, Fellingham considered, that he should draw on himself a se
not worthy the name of Englishman; and I do like you, or I should n't have given you leave to come down here after
't sign the treaty
augh and think I know the aim of it. I'll meet what you like except sc
inman!-the ridiculous! Pray pardon me; but the donkey and his looking-glass! The glass was misty! He-as particular about his reflection in the glass as a poet with his verses!
iemen, pointing his accents-by which is produced the awkward
rneyed back to London a day earlier than he had