United States or Jordan ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"He would do so at the peril of his life, then," said the captain, fiercely. "Do you think, if I were alive, I would let any man rob me of the savings of my life?" "Other men have done so." "It would not be safe to try it on me, Bunsby." "Well, captain?" "It is possible that I may perish, but you may be saved." "Not much chance of it." "Yet it is possible.
'Ay, ay? growled Bunsby. 'Every letter, said the Captain. 'For why? growled Bunsby, looking at his friend for the first time. 'Which way? If so, why not?
And now a surprise occurred, so overwhelming and terrific that Captain Cuttle, unsupported by the presence of Bunsby, must have sunk beneath it, and been a lost man from that fatal hour.
Arrived at the wharf off which this great commander's ship was jammed in among some five hundred companions, whose tangled rigging looked like monstrous cobwebs half swept down, Captain Cuttle appeared at the coach-window, and invited Florence and Miss Nipper to accompany him on board; observing that Bunsby was to the last degree soft-hearted in respect of ladies, and that nothing would so much tend to bring his expansive intellect into a state of harmony as their presentation to the Cautious Clara.
I have heard men who could misquote Scripture for their own ends, and talk a long while without saying anything; but he so far surpassed in these particulars the loftiest efforts within my former experience, that I could think of no comparison for him but Jack Bunsby taken to exhorting. Witness a sample: "Seven women shall take a hold o' one man! There!" "What d' ye think o' that? Shall!
'Bunsby, said the Captain, grasping him by the hand, 'what cheer, my lad, what cheer? 'Shipmet, replied the voice within Bunsby, unaccompanied by any sign on the part of the Commander himself, 'hearty, hearty.
There was that in his manner more than in his words, though they remained with her too, which impressed Florence so much, that she would have confided her uneasiness to Captain Cuttle at that moment, if the Captain had not seized that moment for expounding the state of circumstance, on which the opinion of the sagacious Bunsby was requested, and entreating that profound authority to deliver the same.
'Jack Bunsby, whispered the Captain, 'do you do this here, of your own free will? Mr Bunsby answered 'No. 'Why do you do it, then, my lad? inquired the Captain, not unnaturally. Bunsby, still looking, and always looking with an immovable countenance, at the opposite side of the world, made no reply. 'Why not sheer off? said the Captain. 'Eh? whispered Bunsby, with a momentary gleam of hope.
"Where you will find the atmosphere exceedingly thin and cold, I assure you," said Miss Burton, with something like seriousness in her tone. "I must remind you, Mr. Van Berg, that even Jack Bunsby did not give his opinions till they were asked, and I will take some toast, if you please, in their stead." Stanton and Mrs.
The students of the sage's precepts, left to their own application of his wisdom upon a principle which was the main leg of the Bunsby tripod, as it is perchance of some other oracular stools looked upon one another in a little uncertainty; while Rob the Grinder, who had taken the innocent freedom of peering in, and listening, through the skylight in the roof, came softly down from the leads, in a state of very dense confusion.
Word Of The Day