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`` A queer death , sure enough , '' ejaculated the captain , and changed the painful theme . '' 'T is an elegant mare the young gentleman rides , '' Costigan went on to say ; `` and a grand breakfast , intirely , that young Mister Foker gave us . '' `` He 's good for two private boxes , and at least twenty tickets , I should say , '' cried the daughter , a prudent lass , who always kept her fine eyes on the main chance . `` I 'll go bail of that , '' answered the papa ; and so their conversation continued awhile , until the tumbler of punch was finished ; and their hour of departure soon came , too ; for at half past six Miss Fotheringay was to appear at the theater again , whither her father always accompanied her ; and stood , as we have seen , in the side-scene watching her , and drank spirits-and-water in the green-room with the company there . -LSB- Illustration -RSB- `` How beautiful she is , '' thought Pen , cantering homeward . `` How simple and how tender ! How charming it is to see a woman of her commanding genius busying herself with the delightful , though humble , offices of domestic life , cooking dishes to make her old father comfortable , and brewing drink for him with her delicate fingers !