"Was he angry with you, Vesty?" her husband said.
"No! no!"
"Did he say as he was still fond of you, or anything like that?" said the bold brother Fluke.
"Nay! nay!" said Gurdon. "Vesty's married now: nor Vesty nor he would ever have word like that."
IX
THE TALE OF CAPTAIN LEEZUR'S SLY COURTSHIP
It has not been a seven months, surely, since I heard the roar of those waters down in the Basin's Greater Bay!
Captain Leezur has not been housed through icy snow-fall and winter blast!—nay, he has been ever there, as when I left him sitting on the log, beaming, tranquil heir of eternity.
"Ilein' my saw, ye see," said he, springing up and grasping my hand; "ef I remembers right, I was settin' here ilein' my saw, when ye come and bid me good-by?"