blowing on his face and the water coming up among the wheels of his bed he wanted nothing more he said one day where s india where that boy s friends live oh it s a long long distance off said raising her eyes from her work weeks off asked paul yes dear many weeks journey night and day if you were in india said paul after being and silent for ft minute i should r what is that did i forget loved me answered no no don t i love you now what is it r died if you were in india i should die she hurriedly put her work aside and laid her head down on his pillow caressing him and so would she she said if he were there he would be better soon oh i am a great deal better now i he answered i don t mean that i mean that i should die of being so sorry and so lonely another time in the same place he fell asleep aad slept quietly for a long time suddenly he listened started up and sat listening asked him what he thought he heard i want to know what it says he answered looking steadily in her face the sea what is it that it keeps on saying she told him that it was only the noise of the rolling waves yes yes he said but i know that they are always saying something always the same thing what place is over there he rose up looking eagerly at the horizon she told him that there was another country opposite but he said he didn t mean that he meant farther away farther away very often afterwards in the midst of their talk he would break off to try to understand what it was that the waves were always saying and would rise up in his couch to look towards that invisible region far away ain son chapter ix that of romance and love of the of which there was a pretty strong in the nature of young gay and which the of his undo old solomon had not very much weakened by the waters of stem practical experience was the of his an uncommon and delightful interest to the adventure of with good mrs brown he and cherished it in his memory especially that part of it with which he had been associated until it became the s child of his fancy and look its own way and did what it liked with it the recollection of those incidents and his own in them may have been made the more perhaps by the weekly of old and captain on sundays hardly a sunday passed without mysterious being made hy one or other of those worthy to richard and the latter gentleman had even gone so far as to purchase a ballad of considerable antiquity that had among many others chiefly expressive of n on a dead wall in the commercial road which poetical performance set forth the courtship and of a promising young coal with a certain the accomplished daughter of the master and and son part owner of a in this stirring legend captain a profound hearing on the case of walter and and it excited him so much that on very occasions as and a few other non holidays he would roar through the whole song in the little back parlor making an amazing shake on the word pe � e� with which every verse concluded in compliment to the heroine of the piece but a frank free spirited open hearted boy is not much given to the nature of his own feelings however strong their hold upon him and walter would have found it difficult to decide this point he had a great affection for the wharf where he had encountered and for the streets not in themselves by which they had come home the shoes that had so often tumbled off by the way he preserved in his own room and sitting in the little of an evening he had drawn a whole gallery of fancy portraits of good mrs brown it may be that he became a little in his dress after that memorable occasion and he certainly liked in his leisure time to walk towards that quarter of the town where mr s house was situated on the vague chance of passing little in the street but the sentiment of all this was as boyish and innocent as could be was very pretty and it is pleasant to admire a pretty face was and weak and it was a proud thought that he had been able to render her any protection and assistance was the most grateful little creature in the world and it was delightful to see her bright gratitude beaming in her face was neglected and coldly looked upon and his son breast was full of youthful interest for the child in ber dull stately home thus it came about that perhaps some half b dozen in the course of the year walter pulled off hia hat to in he street and would stop to shake hands mrs who with a characteristic of bis name invariably spoke of him as young was so well used to this knowing the story of their acquaintance that she took no heed of it at all miss on the other hand rather looked out for these occasions her sensitive young heart being secretly by walter s good looks and to tbe belief that its sentiments were responded to in this way walter so far from forgetting or losing of bis with only remembered it better and as to its adventurous beginning and all those little circumstances which gave it a character and relish he took them into ac more as a pleasant story very agreeable to his imagination and not to be dismissed from it than as a part of any matter 