The things we do!

I was
watching them at their sports. There is a pleasing young woman in
attendance upon the poor children. They were sailing their little boats
upon the Serpentine; racing and laughing, and making merry; and as I
looked on, Master Hastings Huckaback's boat went down! Absit omen,
Pendennis! I was moved by the circumstance. F. B. hopes that the child's
father's argosy may not meet with shipwreck!"
"You mean the little yellow-faced man whom we met at Colonel Newcome's?"
says Mr. Pendennis.
"I do, sir," growled F. B. "You know that he is a brother director with
our Colonel in the Bundelcund Bank?"
"Gracious Heavens!" I cried, in sincere anxiety, "nothin has happened, I
hope, to the Bundelcund Bank?"
"No," answers the other, "nothing has happened, the good ship is safe,
sir, as yet. But she has narrowly escaped a great danger, Pendennis,"
cries F. B., gripping my arm with great energy, "there was a traitor in
her crew--she has weathered the storm nobly--who would have sent her on
the rocks, sir, who would have scuttled her at midnight.


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