The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-04-03

the ship and smoke a cigar, when you
knew should be ill-oh, you knew it;
Tor always am. The brutal way, too,
In which you took that cold brandy
and-water-you thought / didn't see
| you; but III as 1 was, hardly able to
hold my head up, I was Watching Won
all the time. Three glasses of cold
brandy-and-water; and you sippeCf sem.
and drank the health of people Won
didn't care a pin about; whilst the
health of your own lawful wife was
nothing. Three glasses of fbrandy-and- :
water. and I left-as may say-alonei
You didn't hear 'em, but everybody
was crying shame of you.
"What do you say2 A good deal nV
ol1R fdUltS ItooE too much dinneT? Well,
the breast and leg OF that young goose
"a thing, may say, just out of the
shell-with the slightest bit of stuffing,
Pm a wicked woman. What do you
sayf lobster SdLddS Ls!-how can
you speak of it2 A month-old baby
berry pie3 Well, If you'll name that,
youth name anything. Ate too much,
indeed! Do you think 1 was going TO
pay for a dinner, and eat nothing? No,
Mr.. Caudle; it's a good thing for you
that 1 know liStle more OF the value
of money than that.
"But, of course, you were better en-
0 II .
Prettyman came aboard at Gravesend.
A planned thing, of course. You think
didn't see him give you a letter. 1t
tPGSnt q letter; u IOdS q newspaper? I
dare say, ill as was, I had my eyes.
1t was the smallest newspaper that i
ever saw, that's all. But, of course, a
letter from Miss Prettyman- Now,
Caudle, if you begin 10 cry out in that
manner, I'll get up. Do you forget
that you're not at your own house {?
making that noise Disturbing every
body Why, we shall have the land
lord up! And you could smoke and
drink forward as Won called ii. What?
You couldn't smoke anylUiere else =
That's nothing to do with it. Yes; for
wand. What a pity that Miss Pretty
man wasn't with you! Pm sure moth
ing could be too forward for her, No,
L won't hold my tongue; and ought
not to be ashamed of myself. 1t isn't
treason, is it, to speak OF Miss Pretty
man After all I've suffered to-day,
and Pm not to open my lipsI Yes; I'm
to be brought sway from nv own
home, dragged down here to the sea-
side, and made i'll; and I'm not to
speak. should like to know what
next.
Its mercy that some of the dear
children were not drowned; not that
their father would have cared, so long
as he could have his brandy and cigars.
Peter was as near through one of the
holes as-It's no such thin99 It's very
well for you to say so, but you know
what an inquisitive boy he is, and how
ne likes to wander among steam-en-
glnes. No, won't let you Sleep
What a man you are! What? TUe
said that before That's no matter; I'll
say 1t again. Go to sleep, indeed! as If
one could never have a little rational
conversation. No, shan't be too late
for the Margate boat in the morning; 1
can wake up at what hour like, and
you ought TO know that by this time.
"A miserable creature they must have
thought me in the ladies' cabin, with
nobody coming down to see how was.
You came dot0n dozen times No,
Caudle, that won't do. know better,
You never came at all. oh, no cigars
and brandy took all your attention,
And when 1 was so ILL., that I didn't
know single thing that was going on
about me, and you never came. Every
other woman's husband was there-hal
twenty times. And what must have
been my feelings to hear 'em tapping
at the door, and making all sorts of
kind inquiries-something like hus-
bands land l was LEFT to be i'll alone?
Yes; and you want to get me into an
argument. You want to know, If
WAS so i'll that I knew nothing, how
could know that you didn't come to
the cabin doorH That's just like your
sggravating way; but I'm not to be
caught in that manner, Caudle. No,n
ait is very possible" !" writes Caudle.
''that she talked two hours more; but,
happily, the wind gotsuddenly up-the
waves bellowed-Rnd, soothed by the
sweet lullaby Ito say nothing of the
Dolphin's brandy and -water), 1 some
how sank to repose."