Springhaven

is to our credit or theirs; whereas their proper business is to cure the fish they have caught, instead of asking how they caught them. Mr. Twemlow had sense enough

en against every veal pie and every loin of pork. Because in the church there would be seen this day (as the servants at the Hall told every one) the man whom no Englishman could behold without pride, and no Frenchman with it-the victor

h a windowful of bull's-eyes upon him, and was surprised to see stars by daylight), but the glint of his jewels and glow of his gold diverted no eye from the calm, sad face which in the day of battle could outflash them all. That sensitive, mild, complaisant face (hum

the village, put this conclusion into better English, when Mrs. Shank

ry night the Lord seeth good for it. I would sooner have found hoppers in the best ham in the shop than have gone to church so to delude myself. But there! that Cheeseman would make me do it. I did believe as we had somebody fit to do battle for us against Boney, and I laughed abou

nks quite agr

self-'why, my poor John, as is now in heaven, poor fellow, would 'a took you up with one hand, my lord, stars a

as different, because they k

es out of twenty. But any one with a fork to his leg can see the sort of stuff he is made of. He 'tended his duty in the house of the Lord, and he wouldn't look after the women; but he kept

sals, according to his manner, taking no trouble to regard the women-which debarred them from thinking much of him-but settling with a steady gaze at each sea-faring man, whether he was made of good stuff or

her father's table, for the Admiral had long been a widower. "The finest I have seen on the south coast anywhere. And t

could get them to believe for a moment that there was any danger of invasion. And they carried on all their fishing business almost a

at any rate very little. As to the Boulogne affair, Springhaven was quite right. There was never much danger of invasion. I only wish

brother Johnny had nicknamed him. "Why, if there was always peace, what on earth would any but very low people f

sister Faith replied, with the superior mind of twenty-o

ers." Then Dolly (whose name was "Horatia" only in presence of her great godfather)

ed to know or remember all the little particulars of our race. We are four, as you know; and the elder two are peaceful, while the younger pair are warlike. And I am to be the 'nasty law

se about me! You told a great sto

attle, but henceforth will do so; but I never shall afford her that gratificat

the table. "Nobody pays much attention to him, because he does not mean a word of it. He belongs to the peace-peace-peace-at-any-pr

looking at Frank Darling with undisguised disgust. "My young friend,

Faith, "never tries to be a fool, Lo

hair with the lightness of a boy, and went round to Frank Darling, with his thin figure leaning forward, and his gray unpowdere

n't look at things as I do. Poets are almost as good as sailors, and a great deal better than soldiers. I have felt a gift that way

who never knew the fear of men, helped largely to produce t

ubit higher than the mighty captain-"it is good for the world tha