All I wish to feel is, that I am trying to
do my duty in that situation into which it has pleased God to call me.
What can this world offer to one who has roughed it all his life, and
who has neither kith nor kin that he knows of to care about his death?"
Mr. Seagrave pressed the hand of Ready, and went down without making
any reply. He found that his wife had been asleep for the last hour,
and was not yet awake. The children were also quiet in their beds. Juno
and William were the only two who were sitting up.
William made a sign to his father that his mother was asleep, and then
said in a whisper, "I did not like to leave the cabin while you were on
deck, hut the steward has not been here these two hours: he went to
milk the goat for baby and has not returned. We have had no breakfast,
none of us."
"William, go on deck," replied his father; "Ready wishes to speak to
you."
William went on deck to Ready, who explained to him the position in
which they were placed; he pointed out to him the necessity of his
doing all he could to assist his father and him, and not to alarm his
mother in her precarious state of health. William, who, as it may be
expected, looked very grave, did, however, immediately enter into
Ready's views, and proceeded to do his best.
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