can begin our married life with a good action. Well, you know,
Edward, that to please me you planned a pleasure trip;
but what could give us such genuine pleasure, or be so useful,
as to save those unfortunate fellows, cast off by their country?"

"Helena!" exclaimed Lord Glenarvan.

"Yes, Edward, you understand me. The DUNCAN is a good strong ship,
she can venture in the Southern Seas, or go round the world if necessary.
Let us go, Edward; let us start off and search for Captain Grant!"

Lord Glenarvan made no reply to this bold proposition, but smiled,
and, holding out his arms, drew his wife into a close, fond embrace.
Mary and Robert seized her hands, and covered them with kisses;
and the servants who thronged the courtyard, and had been witnesses
of this touching scene, shouted with one voice, "Hurrah for the Lady
of Luss. Three cheers for Lord and Lady Glenarvan!"


CHAPTER V THE DEPARTURE OF THE "DUNCAN"


WE have said already that Lady Helena was a brave, generous woman,
and what she had just done proved it in-disputably. Her husband
had good reason to be proud of such a wife, one who could
understand and enter into all his views. The idea of going
to Captain Grant's rescue had occurred to him in London when his
request was refused, and he would have anticipated Lady Helena,
only he could not bear the thought of parting from her.
But now that she herself proposed to go, all hesitation was at an end.