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"Yes I should like to be on her," said Nell "Wouldn't you?"

He srimly

"I am content with the _Annie Laurie_," he replied

She stared at hihed

"Thank you for the compliment; but you can't seriously prefer this dear

old tub to that! I wonder whos to? How fast she travels I

should like to have a yacht like that"

"Would you?" he said, eying her rather strangely "Perhaps soarette

Nell laughed

"Were you going to say that perhaps some day I should own one like her?

What nonsense! It is like the things one reads in books, when the

benevolent and wise old gentleman tells the boy that perhaps, if he

works hard, and is honest and persevering, he e and a

pair like that which happens to be passing at the hed

"Life is full of possibilities," he said, with his eyes fixed on the

yacht, which, after sailing broadside to them for some time, suddenly

put down the hel for Shorne Mills," said Nell, rather