"Next time I'll take both oars," she said with a face of great satisfaction as she put herself back in her old seat. Asahel thought it would cure her of wearing pale cheeks, but he did not venture to make any remark.
Rose was waiting for them, sitting crouched discontentedly on the rocks.
"It's eight o'clock!" — said she, — "and I'm as hungry as a bear!"
"So am I," said Elizabeth springing ashore.
"What have you been doing? — keeping breakfast waiting this age?"
"I never saw any thing so delicious in all my life," said
Elizabeth emphatically, before condescending to say what.
"I shall tell Mr. Haye you are beginning a flirtation already," whispered Miss Cadwallader laughing as they went up to the house.
But the cheek of the other at that became like a thunder- cloud. She turned her back upon her cousin and walked from her to the house, with a step as fine and firm as that of the Belvidere Apollo and a figure like a young pine tree. Rufus, who met her at the door, was astounded with a salutation such as a queen might bestow on a discarded courtier; but by the time the little lady came to the table she had got back her usual air.
"Well, how do you like boating before breakfast?" said Mr
Landholm.
"Very much," Elizabeth said.