Trout's Treasure - Deep Water

Trout's Treasure - Deep Water 126. The Gambler’s Wife “Of course you should have spoken to Father and Mother about it.”,Her tone is only too significant. His face has grown black again. A heavy frown sits on his brow.,He looked attentively at the seals, which were impressed with the Acton crest. He mused for a little while over this document manifestly thinking of other things. Though his brow was knit, his handsome face was a-work with thought. Under that knitted brow the expression of the idea in him came and went. There never could have been a finer study for an artist than this tall and elegant creature, slightly bowed, his beauty lighted up so to speak by the several colours of the moods which inspired him, and which seemed by the occasional movement of his lips to indicate the rehearsal of a passage that was to follow. With an impulse almost passionate as an effect of stern resolution he replaced the tin box, walked out of the berth,[Pg 248] and dangling a key which he had withdrawn from his pocket, stood listening for a few moments at the door of the berth which adjoined the one he had quitted.,"What are you thinking of?" asks Mona, softly, breaking in upon his soliloquy.,"Oh, that was rubbish," said Jen, contemptuously. "You didn't mean it."，"Do not distress yourself, my dear Miss Kendall," she said, benignantly. "There is no cause for apprehension. Absolute secrecy and perfect amenity will prevail. You will be sent for later perhaps, but nothing unpleasant will occur. Depend upon it, the Board will welcome this revelation of the true state of affairs, and will do its duty gently."，"If he's goin' to squat there for the night,—an' I see ivery prospect of it," says Mickey to himself,—"what on airth's goin' to become of me?"，"The major! My guardian!" cried Alymer, quite thunderstruck. "Is he against me?""Then," said Frank, moistening his dry lips, "you have the will, Mr. Maddoc?"

Mona looks at him. How oddly he has expressed himself! "You won't," he said, instead of "you wouldn't." Does he then deem it possible she will ever be able to cross to that land that calls him son? She sighs, and, looking down at her little lean sinewy hands, clasps and unclasps them nervously.,With a last wave of the hand, the boys started on their long hike.,"Mrs. Dallas?" cried David, starting from his seat. "Did she steal the devil-stick?",She broke off with her mouth and eyes opened to their widest, for there in the chair by the cozy grate sat Mrs. Shelly, while Miss Jinny stood chuckling her husky chuckle and rubbing her elbows nervously with both hands.,Johnny Blossom sat down again with wonder in his eyes. It was all so amazingly queer. Suddenly his mother said, “You must not think, little John, that your father and I are altogether glad about this.”,“Lady of the Lake?” she finished quickly in a question. “Do you know that, too? I love it.”,"Yes; Gabriel—poor Gabriel and Evangeline," returns she, too wrapped up in recollections of that sad and touching tale to take to heart his meaning:—,"I wish I was one!" says Mr. Darling, with considerable effusion. "I envy the people who can claim nationality with you. I'd be a Paddy myself to-morrow if I could, for that one reason.",“What is it?” demanded the boy.,CHAPTER V A WILDERNESS MERCHANT,"Yes, deliberately," returns he, with wilful recklessness.,Judith flew back to his side, pushing Patricia ahead to Elinor..