"Yes, you better look at him! Look at him your fill now, You'll never see him again!" groaned Hannah.
"Never see who again? What are you talking about, Hannah, my dear?"
"Ishmael! He's come to bid a last good-by to us all. He's a-going to leave his native country! He's a-going to foreign parts!"
"Ishmael going to foreign parts!" exclaimed Reuben, gazing in surprise on his young guest.
"Yes, Uncle Reuben, I am going to England with Judge Merlin on business."
"Well, to be sure! that is a surprise! I knowed the judge was a- going to see his darter; but I had no idee that you was a-going 'long of him," said Reuben.
"When do you go? that is what I want to know," cried Hannah sharply.
"We sail in the 'Oceana' from Boston on Wednesday; and that is the reason, Aunt Hannah, why I am so hurried; you see I must reach Washington to-night so as to finish up my business there, and take the early train for the North on Tuesday morning."
"What? you going in one of them steamers? Oh, law!"
"What is the matter, ma'am?"