Drummond nodded. . A new restlessness seemed to have stolen in upon her. The coconut plantation covered the west side. But I’m generously
ignorant of gems. Nothing, in short, was too extravagant
to be related of it; and Jonathan, who delighted in investing himself and his
residence with mystery, encouraged, and perhaps originated, these marvellous
tales. A good deal of the food will be in tins. Both had dropped the rather elaborate politeness of the
dining-room, and in their faces an impartial observer would have discovered
little lines of obstinate wilfulness in common; a certain hardness—sharp, indeed,
in the father and softly rounded in the daughter—but hardness nevertheless, that
made every compromise a bargain and every charity a discount. Bulging out more in the
middle than at the two extremities, it resembled an enormous cask set on its end,
—a sort of Heidelberg tun on a large scale,—and this resemblance was increased
by the small circular aperture—it hardly deserved to be called a door—pierced,
like the bung-hole of a barrell, through the side of the structure, at some distance
from the ground, and approached by a flight of wooden steps. "
"There was a yacht in the river?"
"I have nothing to say. "
"Perhaps I read of it somewhere.
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