[Gascoyne, The Sandal Wood Trader by R. M. Ballantyne]@TWC D-Link bookGascoyne, The Sandal Wood Trader CHAPTER XXXI 37/39
After that, Henry may do with it as he pleases.
He has contributed largely to make it what it is, and deserves to reap where he has sown so diligently.
Do you think I am right in all this, Mary ?" We need scarcely remark that Mary did think it all right; for she and Gascoyne had no differences of opinion _now_. Soon after this, Corrie went off on a long voyage in the Avenger.
The vessel touched at San Francisco, and while there, some remarkable scenes took place between Jo Bumpus and a good-looking woman whom he called Susan.
This female ultimately went on board the Avenger, and sailed in her for Green Isle. On the way thither they touched at one of the first of the South Sea Islands that they came in sight of, where scenes of the most unprecedented description took place between Corrie and a bluff old gentleman named Ole Thorwald, and a sweet, blue-eyed, fair-haired maiden named Alice Mason! Strange to say, this fair girl agreed to become a passenger in the Avenger; and, still more strange to say, her father and Ole Thorwald agreed to accompany her; also an ancient piece of animated door-matting called Toozle, and a black woman named Poopy, whose single observation in regard to every event in sublunary history was, "Hee! hee!" On reaching Green Isle, Corrie and Alice were married, and on the same day Bumpus and Susan were also united.
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