17/23 My dear fellow, now how are you ?" "Miss Castlewood, please not to move; I sit any where. Major, I am most delighted to see you. Over and over again I have been at the point of starting for Bruntsea Island--it is an island now, isn't it? However, not a desolate island now, if it contains you and all your energies, and Miss Castlewood, as well as Mrs.Hockin." "It is not an island, and it never shall be," the Major cried, knocking a blue plate over, and spilling the salt inauspiciously. "It never was an island, and it never shall be. |