Let it
be as you say,--divide this sum between your protectors."
"I thank you, my dear, generous father," said Natalie, imprinting a kiss
upon the cheek of her relative; "you have made me happy. I will send
this most acceptable gift to my dear mother, not paining her feelings
with the thought that I would seek to repay her love for her child with
gold, but as an expression of her daughter's filial affection; and not
only will I reward this honest man with the half of this sum, but he
shall have the pleasure of presenting with his own hand this offering to
my mother."
To this latter proposition Sampson acquiesced with pleasure; he was
delighted with the prospect of once more seeing his young shipmate,
whose mysterious allusions to the Sea-flower he could now comprehend;
but as to himself receiving so liberal a legacy, he was not prepared to
look upon the proposition as favorably.
"Take it, my good fellow," said Mr. Alboni, "it is rightly your own; and
should you ever have anything to spare, you cannot do better than to
make the investment which you had purposed."
They parted,--the honest tar to take his way to Columbia's happy land,
while Mr.
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