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It was two bells in the afternoon watch—one o'clock—at which hour the frigate and the schooner had closed each other. By this time the ship ahead had been raised to a full sight of her hull. But long before this she had been made out as the Minorca, by that unmistakable signal of her character—the fore-and-aft canvas on her mizzen- and top-masts. The breeze was steady. All three ships heeled to it. The frigate foamed bending under studding sails, the schooner under all the canvas she could set, and the barque leaned under the heavy strain of every cloth she carried.,[89]“Mother, do come and look at the procession,” Edith called cautiously from the trellises, where she was slyly watching.,“Pull it tighter.”,David considered.,The fairy set out immediately, and an hour afterwards she was seen arriving in a chariot of fire, drawn by dragons.,"Pshaw! Bill, he couldn't hurt Spotba, the womper, could he?","Got enough?" asked Billy pleasantly.,"Do not trouble yourself to make any further excuse," says Mona, icily.,"Haven't heard of it," replied Margaret Howes, with eager interest. "What is it? And who's giving it?",The major, owing to circumstances heretofore related, was a confirmed bachelor, but he did not intend that his boys should follow so bad an example. He wished Maurice to marry Miss Isabella Dallas, a charming blonde from the West Indies; and David he designed as the husband of Lady Meg Brance, daughter of Lord Seamere. But Jen was mistaken in thinking that he could guide the erratic affections of youth, as will hereafter be proved. Sure enough, the lads fell in love, but both with the same woman, a state of things not anticipated by the major, who was too simple to be a matchmaker.,“Why, John, my boy! Did you?”,"Three pounds of candy for the modeling and composition class, four for the head and illustration class, and five for the life," was the prompt response..