The Works of George W. M. Reynolds — page 109: what you’re looking at

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92 REYNOLDS’ WORKS them on the route; suffice it to say that in due course they reached Calais in safety, and thence they embarked for Dover. Infinite was the joy of Kate’s parents and sisters as they welcomed her arrival and hailed the presence of Ned Russell. There were such festivities at the Admiral’s Head, such tales to tell, such adventures to recite, so much to talk over and over again, that it seemed as if neither the rejoicings nor the narratives would ever end. Don Diego was unfeignedly happy at this spectacle of perfect bliss, and he considered the circumstances favourable for a little piece of advice which he had intended to volunteer to Ned Russell. This was to the effect that it would be better for -the gallant sailor to avoid his smuggling adventures in future. Thereunto Russell replied that he had already made up his mind, not merely to abandon such expeditions, but to give up the sea entirely, adding that even if he were utterly destitute of resources, he should consider it his duty to look to some other means of gaining a livelihood, so as to avoid being ever more separated from the admirable young woman who had -aved his hfe. But he had some little property wherewith to commence the world anew, and, moreover, the sale of his yessel, which had arrived saiely in port, would increase his store. Don Diego then proceeded to observe in as delicate a manner as possible, that by way of indemnifying Ned Russell for the loss of his freight, which fell into the hands of the Spanish custom-house officers, he intended to make him a present of five hundred pounds. Russell would not hear of it; the count insisted. Old Mar- shall overheard what was going on, and backing Ned’s de- cision, promised to provide so bountifully for his daughter when the marriage should take place as to supersede the necessity of this further display of his lordship’s generosity. The count was therefore overruled, but before he left Dover, he made Kate and Ned Russell such handsome presents that, so far as the amount went, they almost fulfilled his Seecadl intention. “We shall be gated: in three weeks, my lord,’ said Russell, just previously to the nobleman’s departure for Edenbridge Park, on the second day after his arrival at Dover, — the Marshalls having compelled him to give them his company thus long, treating him as if he were a god who had descended amongst them. ‘‘ We shall be married in (¢(0) ICC JOO Sal m