"
"You'll do no such thing," said Sam. "You had much better come to
church."
"No, I sha'n't. It is like a girl to go to church on a week-day."
"It is much more like a girl to mind what a couple of asses, like the
Grevilles, say," returned Sam, taking up his cap and running after
his sisters and their governess.
"It is quite right," observed Henry to John and David, who alone
remained to listen to him, "that one of us should stay in case the
telegraph comes in, and there are any orders to give. I can catch
the pony, you know, and ride off to Bonchamp, and if the special
train is there, I shall get upon the engine."
"But it is Sam and Susan who are going."
"Oh, that's only because Sam is eldest. I know Mamma would like to
have me much better, because I don't walk hard like Sam; and when I
get there, she will be so much better already, and we shall be all
right; and Admiral Penrose will be so delighted at my courage in
riding on the engine and putting out the explosion, or something,
that he will give me my appointment as naval cadet at once, and I
shall have a dirk and a uniform, and a chest of my own, and be an
officer, and get promoted for firing red-hot shot out of the
batteries at Gibraltar.
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