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"Be so good as to give Commander Ardin my compliments, and say I don't pull a lanyard till I can see through her ports." The other's formal politeness stirred the boy almost to laughter; yet somehow the faded splendour of the man touched him too. It was as when a great light seeks to shine through smoked glass.
"And just sposin I won't," answered the drunkard "only sposin, mind! just for the sake of argyment, d'ye see? what then?" "Irons." The drunkard folded his arms. "And might I make so bold, Commander Ardin," he began elaborately, "to ask who'll fight your guns, your Actin Fust in irons; and besides yourself ne'er another officer on the quar'er-deck only this ere squab."
Jain 'Ardin' was a Sarjint's wife, A Sarjint's wife wus she, She married of 'im in Orldershort An' comed across the sea. Old Barrack Room Ballad. "A gentleman who doesn't know the Circasian Circle ought not to stand up for it puttin' everybody out." That was what Miss McKenna said, and the Sergeant who was my vis-a-vis looked the same thing. I was afraid of Miss McKenna.
Sergeant Glynne's son, Sir William, the first baronet, when he came into possession, was seized with the unaccountable notion of further destroying the old Castle, and by the end of the seventeenth century very little remained beyond what stands to-day. Hawarden is supposed to be synonymous with the word Burg-Ardden, Ardin, a fortified mound or hill.
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