Flora Lyndsay

your clothes in front of the sea. Now, it's hardly decent of he

ra nearly into convulsions of laughte

ou will just tell her to wait a bit, until I have overha

him the treat-and then, he will not shock the sensitive nerves of the

one in a lubberly manne

uch an old woman. I wonder he does not ask

my ropes, and Mrs. Lyndsay borrowed those ropes this morning of me. Don't interrupt me, Mrs. K.; attend to your business, and l

brow, and which in all probability had been brewing all the morning, she assured

that you mean to submit patiently to the yoke of matrimony; and not pull one way, while your husband pulls the other. To

gossip at his expense, when he suddenly returned to the sofa on which Flora was seated; and putting his mouth quite close to her ear, while his litt

with her husband. Did the old Captain possess the gift of second-sight? "Captain Kitson," she

uccess of his stratagem. "Who told me?-why I can't say, who told me. You know, wh

assing in their neighbours' houses," muttered the old l

e knew that Captain Kitson and his wife were notable gossips, and it was mortifying to know that their secret plans in a few hours would be made public. She replied col

t 'tis the common report of the day. Besides, is not the Leaftenant gone this morni

behind her spouse in wishing to extract the news, thoug

d these agents, employed by the Canada Company, say what they can out of their own heads. The object i

ice, or the interference of a third person," said Flora, colouring again. A

make; nervous and delicate, half the time confined to your bed with some complaint or other. And then, when you are well, the whole blessed day is wasted in reading and writing, and coddling up the babby. I

answer to this burst of eloquenc

happy and comfortable where you are. This is a nice cottage, quite large enough for your small family. Fine view of the sea from these front windows, and all re

itson. The oven is good for nothing. It has no draught; and you

n. "A little contrivance wou

wife, "and I could never bake a

a less evil than a cross wife. The house, I say, is complete from the cellar to the garret. And then, the rent-why, what is it? A mere trifle-too cheap by one half,-only twenty-five pounds per annum. I don't know what possessed me, to l

Captain," said Flora. "We have no fault to find

ey are well off. Look twice before you leap once-that's my maxim; and give

r, to finish with Kelly the arrangement of his pots and kettles, and superintend the

n; who during the war had risen from before the mast to the rank of Post Captain. He had fought at Copenhagen and Trafalgar, and distinguished himself in many a severe contest on the main during those stirring times, and b

s interference in his own domestic affairs, and those of his neighbours. With a great deal of low cunning, he mingled the most insatiable curio

e port, he had many opportunities of purchasing wrecks of the sea, and the damaged cargoes of foreign vessels,

ugh he were still upon the deck of his war-ship, and they were subjected to his imperious commands. Not a boat could be put off, or a flag hoisted, without he was duly consulted and apprised of the fact. Not a funeral could t

ing," he would say. "A refusal breaks no bones, an

during the bathing season, for the last twenty years, on his behalf. His favourite maxim practically carried out, had been very successful. He had obtained, for the

beds were dug up and remodelled, three or four times during the season, to suit the caprice of the owner, w

weetness on th

tting his borders

e time being of one sort and colour. For several weeks, innumerable quantities of double crimson stocks flaunted before your eyes, so densely packed, that scarcely a shade of green relieved

s of stocks, larkspur and poppy seeds, were annually sa

Captain's oddities, had nick-named

to co