“She is a most sensitive child,” said Madame Volney’s daughter; “and though only twelve years old, has all the thoughts and feelings of a far maturer age.”
“Well, I trust and hope,” said the midshipman, “that time will do its usual work, and reduce the violence of her present feelings. She is very young; and if her relatives receive her kindly, it will tend greatly to obliterate the memory of the past.”
FOOTNOTES:
[3] Fact. See James’s “Naval History.”
CHAPTER VII.
A day or two after our hero’s visit to Mabel, he received orders to attend the Admiral, who required his presence in the cabin.
Lord Hood was alone, sitting at a table covered with papers, letters, and dispatches. His Lordship looked up, pointed with the pen in his hand to a seat, and then finished the letter he was employed upon when our hero entered. His secretary, the moment before, had left the cabin.
After a few minutes, Lord Hood looked up, and laying down his pen, said—
“Well, Master Thornton, how is your little protégée, Miss Arden?”