IX.] CORN IS APPLICABLE. 



of the Frenchman in all the various disputes about 

 country and government, and other matters, with 

 disputes about which we wiled away the time that 

 the "good ship Mary'' kept us tossing about, 

 but, in this case, I was not afraid to appeal even 

 to him, so confident was I of a decision in my 

 favour. "Now then," said I, " Captain Grin- 

 NELL, you have heard the whole story, do you 

 think that Miss Hicks will wait for Monsieur 

 Lachaine, or do you not?" Both of us looked 

 hard at the Captain, and Lachaine with mani- 

 fest anxiety and fear, though he put on a smile. 

 The Captain, clapping his two elbows upon the 

 table, folding his hands together, and looking in a 

 very pleasant manner, Lachaine in the face, said, 

 " I am sorry. Monsieur, to decide in the favour of 

 this d — d saucy Englishman ; but, I know my 

 countrywomen ; and, at that age, 1 know that they 

 will not keep." My wife, who had taken a warm 

 part with the Frenchman, it being a case in which 

 the sisterhood were concerned, exclaimed "For 

 shame. Captain Grinnell, and you a married 

 man too." As to Lachaine, while he applauded 

 this indignation of his advocate, and affected to 

 laugh at the decision, he was manifestly stricken 

 to the very heart. He, from that moment, drooped 

 down into a silent and sad individual, and there 

 was not a smile upon his face for the remainder 

 of the voyage, which lasted another month. By 



