Surely you will not refuse to hear what made me so anxious about this bauble, which now will be worth ten times as much.

I never saw it look so bright before." "It--it must be the sand has made it shine," the maiden stammered, with a fine bright blush; "it does the same to my shrimping net." "Ah, shrimping is a very fine pursuit! There is nothing I love better; what pools I could show you, if I only might; pools where you may fill a sack with large prawns in a single tide--pools known to nobody but myself.

When do you think of going shrimping next ?" "Perhaps next summer I may try again, if Captain Carroway will come with me." "That is too unkind of you.

How very harsh you are to me! I could hardly have believed it after all that you have done.

And you really do not care to hear the story of this relic ?" "If I could stop, I should like it very much.