chill struck to her heart through the tumult she felt there. Till he saw
her there had been such a cold reserve and hauteur in his bearing, that
the trepidation which she had felt about him at times, the day before,
and which had worn quite away under the events of the morning, was
renewed again, and the aspect, in which he had been so strange that she
did not know him, seemed the only one that he had ever worn. This effect
lasted till Mr. Arbuton could find his way to her, and place in her
eager hand a letter from the girls and Dr. Ellison. She forgot it then,
and vanished till she read her letter.




V.

MR. ARBUTON MAKES HIMSELF AGREEABLE.


The first care of Colonel Ellison had been to call a doctor, and to know
the worst about the sprained ankle, upon which his plans had fallen
lame; and the worst was that it was not a bad sprain, but Mrs. Ellison,
having been careless of it the day before, had aggravated the hurt, and
she must now have that perfect rest, which physicians prescribe so
recklessly of other interests and duties, for a week at least, and
possibly two or three.

The colonel was still too much a soldier to be impatient at the doctor's
order, but he was of far too active a temper to be quiet under it. He
therefore proposed to himself nothing less than the capture of Quebec in
an historical sense, and even before dinner he began to prepare for the