a hill, with green fields and a sparkling stream
below, a seaman's paradise, with an Eve as a companion.

Ronald Morton, in spite of his resolution to the contrary, could not
help thinking of Edda Armytage, and the possibility of yet winning her;
still, again and again he tried to overcome aspirations which appeared
so utterly hopeless. Indeed, why should he ever wish to make her his?
Had she ever attempted to assure him that she did not share her father's
feelings? Had she not, from what he had heard, been willingly receiving
the attentions of Alfonse Gerardin, a mere adventurer, at best, who must
have been guilty of the most barefaced falsehoods to have gained so
completely, as he appeared to have done, the good opinion of a person
generally so acute as Colonel Armytage? No, he did not want money for
himself; it was to place his father in the position in life to which he
was born, should it be, as he had every reason to hope, superior to that
he now occupied; still, as he thought all this, and much more, his
captain's remark, "With money you can do everything," rang in his ear.

Not a man or boy on board that ship who was not thinking at that moment
of the same thing--money; most of them were talking of it too. With
eager eyes they watched the chase as a wild beast does its prey, longing
to get possession.

The stranger at first did not seem to have understood the character of
the frigate. Her people were not keeping so good a look-out as were
Lord Claymore's crew; when they did, all sail was crowded in flight.
Away she went before the wind. A stern chase is proverbially a long
one; a tub can sail with the wind aft.

Many hours of the day had passed: evening was approaching: should the
night prove a dark one, she after all might escape. The captain was
becoming anxious, so was every one on board. The nearer they had got to
the chase the more like a Spaniard she appeared. All was done that
could be thought of to make the frigate sail; every inch of canvas she
could carry was set on her; studdingsails on either side hanging down to
the very surface of the water, which they swept as she glided proudly
on, while other light sails were placed even above the royals, till she
looked like a lofty pyramid of snow gliding over the deep. Faster she
glided--the breeze was increasing; now she rushed through the water; the
officers looked over her sides and watched with satisfaction the foam
which rose on either side a