as the missus looked out for from what she have read. They always goes

by their own opinions, and wrong a score of times out of twenty. But any

one with a fork to his leg can see the sort of stuff he is made of. He

'tended his duty in the house of the Lord, and he wouldn't look after

the women; but he kept his live eye upon every young chap as were fit

for a man-of-war's-man--Dan Tugwell especial, and young Harry Shanks.

You see if he don't have both of they afore ever the war comes on

again!"

Conscious of filling the public eye, with the privilege of being upon

private view, Lord Nelson had faced the position without flinching, and

drawn all the fire of the enemy. After that he began to make reprisals,

according to his manner, taking no trouble to regard the women--which

debarred them from thinking much of him--but settling with a steady

gaze at each sea-faring man, whether he was made of good stuff or of

pie-crust. And to the credit of the place it must be said that he found

very little of that soft material, but plenty of good stuff, slow,

perhaps, and heavy, but needing only such a soul as his to rouse it.

"What a fine set of fellows you have in your village!" he said to Miss

Darling after dinner, as she sat at the head of her father's table,

for the Admiral had long been a widower. "The finest I have seen on

the south coast anywhere. And they look as if they had been under some

training. I suppose your father had most of them in the Fencibles, last

summer?"

"Not one of them," Faith answered, with a sweet smile of pride. "They

have their own opinions, and nothing will disturb them. Nobody could get

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