Bigglethorpe, for whom the lawyer had brought a
bundle of new flies, which in his anxious state of mind he had forgotten
to deliver, and a four days' trip on the _Susan Thomas_, which pleased
Miss Graves and Mr. Douglas immensely. Only two days were actually spent
on the water, but, as Tryphena was there in the capacity of cook, and a
coloured lady of Maguffin's acquaintance was temporarily engaged for
Mrs. Du Plessis, the crew and the manservant were in the seventh heaven
of delight. Marjorie, of course, was present, and shared the command of
the schooner with her father. She also attached herself a good deal to
Jim, and, although resenting the attentions he bestowed upon the big
girl, carefully abstained from porcine epithets, a result of Eugene's
epistolary instructions. The great Mr. Tylor came up to Bridesdale in
person to see his junior, and was duly informed of the engagement
between him and the heiress, Miss Carmichael, "Ah, Coristine, my dear
fellow, we shall be losing you for the law, now, and, the first thing we
know, you will be in Parliament. If not, I may say White is going out of
the firm, and Woodruff and I had resolved on Tylor, Woodruff and
Coristine for the new style.
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