Witch Hazel; or, The Secret of the Locket — page 358: what you’re looking at

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again to his. “You have comforted me greatly,” she said. “I could not have borne it to have you estranged from us.”’ “How true it is that blood will always tell,” Charlie remarked, a little later. “[ was. born a sailor, and you know I have always yearned to be one, while it was an impossibility to make a doctor of me.” “That is what your father has always said, when I have expressed sorrow that you would not follow his profession and regretted your love for the sea,” Mrs. Harwood responded. “Yes, one cannot pis eth to gather ‘grapes from thistles,’” he returned, lightly, but feeling a trifle sensitive, nevertheless. “Oh, Charlie, that is not a tair comparison,” she said, reproachfully, ‘my lawyer boy is bound to honor his profession, and thereis one advantage that. your wife will have over us poor doctors’ wives, she will not need to worry over your loss of meals and broken nights.” “Mother,” Charlie asked, after a thoughtful silence, “do youimagine that Morton is connected in any very _ those Mortons—with the light-keeper and is son?” “I do not believe that can be ad bi she replied. “He certainly does not appear like a person brought up in that way.” “But he may be a distant connection, he may know something about them,” the young man persisted. *“Perhaps—it can do no harm to ask him—perhaps the old light-keeper may yet be living. At all events we must try to learn something definite about him aud my parents.” commicbooks.com