Then there was Mrs.Thomas herself.

When they finally reached the island of St.Michael, in the Azores, Augusta had offered to pay fifty pounds, being half of the hundred sovereigns given to her by Mr.Meeson, to Captain Thomas as a passage fee, knowing that he was by no moans overburdened with the goods of this world.

But he stoutly declined to touch a farthing, saying that it would be unlucky to take money from a castaway.

Augusta as stoutly insisted; and, finally, a compromise was come to.

Mrs.Thomas was anxious, being seized with that acute species of home-sickness from which Suffolk people are no more exempt than other folk, to visit the land where she was born and the people midst whom she was bred up.