The caitiff’s face underwent a kaleidoscopic change as these terrible words rant? in his ears. With the bound of of a wounded antelope he sprang to the summit of the nearest mountain, and stood there with arms erect against the sky, like a statue of Ajax.
“He don’t seem blooming, shiver my timbers if he do,” said old Peeler.
“We shall not meet again,” said Sep, grinding his teeth in his direction.
“Why should we be standing here in the sun?” said Velvetina. “Let us return to England.”
They returned the same evening.
Story 14.
Chapter Fifteen.
Omnia vincit Amor.
Septimus Minor and Velvetina Peeler were married quietly at the Crocusville Cathedral.
The bride was given away by her father, Captain Peeler, R.N.