Best and most delightful of all, he one day brought them news of their brother’s promotion, a circumstance which, as he was not appointed to any ship, would probably bring him home in less than a month.
He did not say that it was his interest which had procured the step, but the sisters felt that it was, and thought that they had good reason to be grateful.
CHAPTER XXIII.
“Hear the loud alarum bells—
Brazen bells!
What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells!
In the startled ear of night,
How they scream out their affright!
Too much horrified to speak,
They can only shriek, shriek,