Dinsmore approved.
Not many minutes had passed before she looked back, and seeing that she
had left her brothers some distance behind, hastily began to retrace her
footsteps, Rosie with her.
The instant they turned to do so, the captain, addressing Harold, artfully
inquired, "Do you know that young lady?"
"I should think so! she's my own sister," said the boy proudly. "The
little one too."
"Pretty girls, both of them. Won't you introduce me?"
"Yes, I suppose so," returned the boy a little doubtfully, and taking a
more critical survey of his new acquaintance than he had thought necessary
before; "you--you're a gentleman and a good man, aren't you?"
"Don't I look like it?" laughed the captain. "Would you take me for a
rogue?"
"I--I don't believe you'd be a burglar or a thief, but----"
"Well?"
"Please don't think I mean to be rude, sir, but you broke the third
commandment a minute ago."
"The third? which is that? for I really don't remember."
"I thought you'd forgotten it," said Herbert.
"It's the one that says, 'Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God
in vain,'" answered Harold, in low reverent tones.
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