Take the things you will
require at first in one or two flat trunks which will stow under
your berth; once a week or so, if the weather is fine, you will be
able to get at your things in the hold. Do try if possible to pack
all the things that you are likely to want to get at during the
voyage in one trunk, and have a star or any mark you like painted
on that trunk with your name, then there will be no occasion for
the sailors to haul twenty boxes upon deck. Be sure you send all
your trunks on board, except those you want in your cabin, two days
before she sails. Do you think you can remember all that?"
"I think so, Dr. Wade."
"Very well then, I'm off," and the Doctor shook hands with Isobel,
nodded to Mrs. Hannay and Helena, and hurried away.
"What a perfectly detestable little man!" Mrs. Hannay exclaimed,
as the door closed over him. "Your uncle must have been out of his
senses to select such an odious person to look after you on the
voyage. I really pity you, Isobel."
"I have no doubt he is very much nicer than he seems, mamma. Uncle
said, you know, in his letter last week, that he had written to
Dr. Wade to look after me, if, as he thought probable, he might be
coming out in the same ship. He said that he was a little brusque
in his manner, but that he was a general favorite, and one of the
kindest hearted of men."
"A little brusque," Mrs. Hannay repeated scornfully. "If he is only
considered a little brusque in India, all I can say is society must
be in a lamentable state out there.
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