" "A friend is not so soon gained as lost," replied Wood; "but how has the prediction been fulfilled, Joan, eh?" "I thought you would have guessed, Sir," replied the widow, timidly. He wore a black tail coat buttoned tightly over his chest, and a large diamond pin sparkled in a white satin tie which had seen better days. He daren't quarrel with me: and if he does, let him look to himself. ” Chapter XV A MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE Anna looked about her admiringly. “Father,” she cried, “I have to live!” He misunderstood her. She had begun alone. At other times he seemed to have regained the normal completely. Wood had the advantage of her husband in point of years, being on the sunny side of forty,—a period pronounced by competent judges to be the most fascinating, and, at the same time, most critical epoch of woman's existence,—whereas, he was on the shady side of fifty,—a term of life not generally conceived to have any special recommendation in female eyes. ‘His granddaughter?’ ‘Yes, his son’s daughter. And yet, when you offered to help, it was what is to come that I had in mind. He had abandoned his oars, and the boat was drifting with the stream towards the enemy. There was all the knavery, and more than all the drollery of a Spanish picaroon in the laughing eyes of the English apprentice; and, with a little more warmth and sunniness of skin on the side of the latter, the resemblance between them would have been complete. There was only one small grated window in this hold, which admitted but little light. When she awoke she felt as if she were adrift on a soft cloud through a golden sky.
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