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Perhaps it was a case of telepathy, for, with her hand hovering over Marjorie's hollyhocks, Miss Ashwell seemed to change her mind and took up instead the bluebells: "Bells from a crew of pirates bold That sail the 'Jolly Susan, With bells the time is always told When our good ship's a-cruisin, Heave-aho, my laddies, oh, All the bells are swinging, Flower-bells and ship bells, for your wedding ringing."
"No more than them I could name who planned to go a-cruisin' in the Plymouth Adventure," doggedly replied Peter Tobey who resented the tone of sneering patronage. "Fie, fie! You talk boldly for a man in your situation. Never mind! Why the honor of this visit?" "To make terms, Master Rackham. If us twenty men consent to serve you " "You babble of terms?" was the biting interruption.
Seems to me if I had a beau excuse me, a gentleman friend who come a-cruisin' all the way from t'other side of creation to see me I wouldn't keep him waitin' very long. Ho! ho!" Mary did not answer at once. When she did she was surprised to find that she was able to speak so calmly. "I shall be down in a moment," she said. "Isaiah, will you please go in and stay with Uncle Zoeth until I come?"
Jack Cockrell's teeth chattered but not with cold as the boat bobbed away from the side of the Revenge. Presently Joe recognized the pirate at the steering oar as a petty officer who had often befriended him. This fellow's swarthy, pockmarked face crinkled in a smile as he flourished his broad hat and yelled: "Stab my gizzard, but here's the London 'prentice-boy a-cruisin' on his own adventure."
"But how were they found there?" came the boy's next question. "Yes, Sah, I was jes' comin' to that. Dis hyar Fitton, wid one cutter, was a-cruisin' together wid Wylie, in de other cutter, when Wylie broke away to take de Nancy. "Bein' nigh breakfast time, Fitton signals to Wylie to come to breakfast. Wylie, he right busy wid Nancy an' can't come right away.
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