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Rh the charge of Master Henry, in despite of his remonstrances in the contrary."

"I am very little obliged to Mr Francis Kennedy for his pains," said the lady peevishly; "suppose he lets the boy drop from his horse, and lames him?—or suppose one of the cannons comes ashore and kills him?—or suppose"

"Or suppose, my dear," said Ellangowan, "what is much more likely than any thing else, that they have gone aboard the sloop, or the prize, and are to come round the Point with the tide?"

"And then they may be drowned," said the lady.

"Verily," said Sampson, "I thought Mr Kennedy had returned an hour since—Of a surety I deemed I heard his horse's feet."

"That," said John with a broad grin, "was Grizel chasing the humbled cow out of the close."

Sampson coloured up to the eyes—not at the implied taunt, which he would never have discovered, or resented if he