"It will be quite time to talk about that a long time hence." "Well, I will put off talking about it for a short time, but, you see, I have had a year's waiting already." Very pleasant was the three hours' cruise.

No one gave a thought of the missing topmast and bowsprit.

There was a nice sailing breeze, and, clipped as her wings were, the Osprey was still faster than the majority of the yachts.
As soon as the two ladies had been put ashore, Frank sailed for Cowes.

It was too late when they got there for anything to be done that evening, but Frank went ashore with the captain, and found that the spars were all ready to receive the iron work and sheaves from the old ones; and as these had been towed up to the yard to be in readiness, Messieurs White promised that they would arrange for a few hands to come to work early, and that the spars should be brought off by half-past eight on Monday morning.
As soon as he had returned in the gig, after putting the ladies ashore at Ryde, Frank had called George Lechmere to him.
"It is all right, George, thanks to your interview with Miss Greendale.

It was a bold step to take, but it was the best possible thing, and succeeded splendidly, and everything is to be as I wish it." "I am glad, indeed, to hear it, Major, and I hoped that you would have something of the sort to tell me.