12/18 And Boney would make his head-quarters at the Hall, with a French cook in your kitchen, and a German butler in your cellar, and my pretty godchild to wait upon him, for the rogue loves pretty maidens." "That will do. No wonder you have written poems, Nelson, as you told us the last time you were here. If my son had only got your imagination--but perhaps you know something more than you have told me. Perhaps you have been told--" "Never mind about that," the great sea-captain answered, turning away as if on springs; "it is high time for me to be off again, and my chaise has springs on her cables." "Not she. |