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Her owners are the leaders of the little neighbourhood, and her cargo is home-grown. She carries no special carpenter and sailmaker, like a Britisher, because a Bluenose has an all-round crew, every man of which is smart enough, either with the tools or with the fid and palm and needle, for ordinary work, while some are sure to be equal to any special job.
"Sheriff live this way?" shouted Matthews; for the roar of the little stream filled the canyon. "Has a ranch at the foot of the Pass." "It won't be wasting time, anyway," said the old Britisher. Again, Wayland smiled. If it would not be wasting time; then, they were already in pursuit of the outlaws.
You are English, as I can see, a real Britisher. Some day you must come out to our own great country my daughter, of course, has told you that we are Americans. A great country, sir, the greatest I have ever lived in room to breathe, room to grow, room for a young man like you to plant his ambitions and watch them blossom. To our better acquaintance, Mr.
I could overhear their conversation, though they did not know it. "He's been fightin' a painter?" said one, interrogatively. "A painter or a bar," answered another. "'Twur some desprit varmint anyhow it hez left its mark on him, that it hez." "It's the same fellow that laid out Bully Bill: ain't it?" "The same," replied some one. "English, ain't he?" "Don't know. He's a Britisher, I believe.
First we knew a British vessel overhauled us, and, not likin' th' looks of things, began to ask questions. Of course there wasn't any captain, such as there should be on a ship, an' that made it look suspicious. Th' worst of it was that nobody could say where the captain was. None of us knew. "Then th' story of th' mutiny came out, of course, an' it was all up. The Britisher took charge of us.
The Britisher wasn't half a man; he was a sneak, who ought to have stayed in his own tyrannical country; and much more to the same effect.
We dared not touch one of the military, no matter what they said or did, for it would mean instant death; but when the civilians were extra-brutal or insulting, as they often were, we got even if we did not happen to be too greatly out-numbered. The smallest Britisher that ever went into the mine could lick the biggest Hun in a fair fight.
He could have examined Helena's eyes, but she was gone now. However, there was an alternative. There was a Dillon in Salonika, as there was a Helena. If the Dillon in Salonika was the real Dillon if there were a real Dillon he could look at his eyes. He could tell if he were the false Dillon or the real one. At this hour of the afternoon a Britisher would consider tea a necessity.
And so watch him fretting to the slow-coming end, while now and again you give him a taste of hope, to drop him back again into the pit which has no sides for climbing. He paused a minute, and then added, 'A year ago I thought he had touched you, this Britisher, with his raw humour and manners; but, my faith, how swiftly does a woman's fancy veer! At that I said calmly to him, 'You must remember that then he was not thought so base. 'Yes, yes, he replied; 'and a woman loves to pity the captive, whatever his fault, if he be presentable and of some notice or talent.
We edged up closer and closer, and when the haze lifted, came on a hot little fight in progress between a big ship and a small one, and crowded the rigging and bulwarks to make it out. "Little chap's a Britisher, I'll wager you," said old Martin Cohu, the bo's'un. "A privateer then, and t'other a merchantman." "Unless it's t'other way on.
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