"So fair and foul a day I have not seen,'" the man muttered; and both Joshua and Susan thought, "How strangely yet how beautifully he speaks!"
Susan made the tea down stairs, and she and Joshua sat quietly by, while the man and his daughter ate like starved wolves. It was a bitterly-painful sight to see.
"I think we had better go now, Susan," whispered Joshua.
They would have left the room without a word; but the man said,--
"What is your name, and what are you?"
"My name is Joshua Marvel, and I'm going to be a sailor."
"'There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft,'" said the actor, "'to keep watch for the life of poor Jack.'"
"That's what Praiseworthy Meddler says," said Joshua, laughing. "I shall come and see you again, if you will let me."
"Come and welcome."
"Goodnight, sir."