e likeness was very striking. Well,
I must cut my yarn short. Having rigged jury-masts we made sail, and,
the wind coming to the southward, steered a course for England. The
brig kept cruising about us like a vigilant sheep-dog, ready to do
battle with any who might interfere with his charge. At length England
was reached, and getting leave, I accompanied my new-found friends to
Whithyford. I will not describe the meeting of the mother and her
child, and the elder child and her mother. One thing only made me
unhappy. I dreaded lest Mr Bramston, who I found had made a large
fortune in India, should object to his daughter marrying a poor
lieutenant of no family. I could not bear suspense, and so Emily and I
told him that we were engaged, and she added that she should break her
heart if she were not allowed to marry me. Mr Bramston smiled.

"You are rather young to think of such matters now," he said, "but when
my friend here becomes a commander, if you are still in the same mind, I
promise you that neither your mother nor I will object."

In the course of two years I did become a commander. We were in the
same mind and married. I stuck to my profession, however, was posted,
got the command of a dashing frigate, in which I did good service to my
country, and am now a KCB with my flag in prospect.

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