He may be twin brother to the Angel
Gabriel; but if he is, his looks belie it!"
There was nothing in all this of enough consequence to disturb the
girl, only in so far as she was vexed to find the neighbors so gossipy
and unkind. She gazed thoughtfully upon Cap'n Amazon as he sat across
from her at the breakfast table, and wondered how anybody could see in
his bronzed face anything sinister.
That he was rather ridiculously gotten up, it was true. Those gold
earrings! But then, she had seen several of the older men about the
store wearing rings in their ears. If he did not always have that
bright-colored kerchief on his head! But then, he might wear that
because he was susceptible to neuralgia and did not wish to wear a hat
all the time as seemed to have been Cap'n Abe's custom.
When he smiled at her and his eyes crinkled at the corners, he was as
kindly of expression, she thought, as Cap'n Abe himself. And he was a
much better looking man than the brother who had gone away.
"Cap'n Amazon," she said to him, "I believe you must be just full of
stories of adventure and wonderful happenings by sea and land.
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