in the
article of matrimony.

This intelligence soothed and consoled her, and the rosy hue of health
once more revisited her sweet countenance; her eyes once more sparkled
with much of her wonted animation and cheerfulness, but still there was
a shade upon her mind amounting almost to sadness; her uncle had
unmasked his battery, and she felt that she was doomed to much
persecution, on what, under existing circumstances, was to her a most
painful subject. But the destinies, that manage matrimonial affairs
infinitely better than free agents, were busy on her behalf.

CHAPTER IV.

"Why," said the knight, "did you not tell me, that this water was
from the well of your blessed patron, St. Dunstan?"

"Ay, truly," said the hermit, "and many a hundred pagans did he
baptize there; but I never heard that he drank any of it. Every
thing should be put to its proper use in this world. St. Dunstan
knew, as well as any one, the prerogatives of a jovial friar."

IVANHOE.

It was nearly six months after the warlike and portentous visit of the
puissant governor to the Porte, when he was roused one morning by
intelligence, that an American whale-ship had arrived in the night, and
was then at anchor just within Pedro Blanco. He immediately commenced,
in his usual style of vaporing and flourish, as though this Yankee ship,
arriving without his knowledge and consent, had compromised the welfare
of the Spanish monarchy. Before his zeal had half done effervescing, a
sergeant brought word that the captain and first officer were at his
usual place of transacting business, or _bureau d'office_, and wished to
see him. This piece of information had by no means a sedative effect.
Here was a heretic, not only stealing into the bay, like a thief in the
night, but carrying his impudence still farther, by insisting upon an
interview, and that too out of business hours, with the representative
of His Most Catholic Majesty, by the grace of God, King of Two Spains
and the Indies.

However, he very graciously sent word, that he would attend to them in a
few minutes; and having drank his chocolate, he proceeded to his office,
where he found waiting for him a grave elderly man, and a handsome young
one. The American captain could speak no Spanish, but the young man
could fluently, and he immediately proceeded to inform his excellency,
that the parties who had ventured to in