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would be horrid, too. To <40 there alone in this
way, and have to talk alone with Uncle, a
minister, and all the other grown-up people at the
rectory—it would be disgustingly tiresome.
There was nothing that was any fun in the
whole world. It would be disgusting to go
home again; for Father would he so dreadfully
angry—and it was most disgusting of all to be
liere 011 the steamboat where everybody laughed
at me.
And all on aceount of an old rag of a
five-crown biil which had blown away. Besides, I
had told a lie and said I was twelve years old.
Oh-oh-oh! how sad everything was!
I sat with my hånd under my cheek, leaning
against the railing and staring into the sea.
All at once a plan occurred to me which I
thought a remarkablv good one then. Now I
tliink it was frightfully stupid. I would ask
the mate if he wouldn’t take something of mine
as payment for our passage.
I had a little silver ring—one of those with a
tiny heart hanging to it;—I thought of that
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