AT HOME 141

CHAPTER XIII.
THE DEPARTURE 152

CHAPTER XIV.
AN OPEN BOAT AT SEA 163

CHAPTER XV.
ONCE MORE AT HOME 173

CHAPTER XVI.
THE FOG 179

CHAPTER XVII.
THE STEAM-BOAT 188

CHAPTER XVIII.
A PEEP INTO THE LADIES' CABIN 196

CHAPTER XIX.
MRS. DALTON 209

CHAPTER XX.
EDINBURGH 219

CHAPTER XXI.
MRS. WADDEL 226

CHAPTER XXII.
CLIMBING THE MOUNTAIN 237

CHAPTER XXIII.
THE BRIG ANNE 247

CHAPTER XXIV.
A VISIT TO THE SHIP OWNER 257

CHAPTER XXV.
FLORA'S DINNER 266

CHAPTER XXVI.
FEARS OF THE CHOLERA--DEPARTURE FROM SCOTLAND 273

CHAPTER XXVII.
A NEW SCENE AND STRANGE FACES 285

CHAPTER I.

A MATRIMONIAL DIALOGUE.

"Flora, have you forgotten the talk we had about emigration, the morning
before our marriage?" was a question rather suddenly put to his young
wife, by Lieutenant Lyndsay, as he paused in his walk to and fro the
room. The fact is, that he had been pondering over that conversation for
the last hour.

It had long been forgotten by his wife; who, seated upon the sofa with a
young infant of three years old in her lap, was calmly watching its
sleeping face with inexpressible delight. She now left off her maternal
studies; and looked up at her husband, with an inquiring glance,--

"Why do you ask, dear John?"

"Are you turned Quaker, Flora, that you cannot give one a _direct_
answer?"

"I have not forgotten it. But we have been so happy ever since, that I
have never given it a second thought. What put it into your head just
now?"

"That child--and thinking how I could provide for her, in any other
way."

"Dear little pet! She cannot add much to our expenses." And the mother
bent over her sleeping child, and kissed its soft, velvet cheek,