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And here, it seems, he was close up with this island on the sixth, sails all these days, and is close up with it again by daylight on the eleventh." "Goddedaal said they had the deuce's luck," said Carthew. "Well, it don't look like real life that's all I can say," returned Wicks. "It's the way it was, though," argued Carthew.
I said that I would not go afoot, but Carthew answered: "'It would pain me greatly were I obliged to take such a step; but if you will not go, there is no course open to me but to have you carried. I am sorry that it should be so, but for various reasons it is imperative that you should take up your abode on shore for the present. "Seeing that it was useless to resist, I started with him.
Before the stupor had passed, Mrs. Carthew entered, anxious lest the admittance of a messenger of evil to her invalid should have been an error of judgement. The butler had argued it with her. She belonged to the list of persons appointed to cut life's thread when it strains, their general kindness being so liable to misdirection. Gower left the room and went into the garden.
He had cried for Romance here it was! He raised his hat to Mrs. Carthew and to Lord Levellier. Previous to the ceremony, the two noblemen had interchanged the short speech of mannered duellists punctiliously courteous in the opening act. Their civility was maintained at the termination of the deadly work.
"It was the thing in your times, that's right enough; but you're old now, and the game's up. I'll tell you what's wanted now-a-days, Bill Bostock," said he; and did, and took ten minutes to it. Carthew could not refrain from smiling. He began to think less seriously of the scheme, Hadden appearing too irresponsible a guide; but on the other hand, he enjoyed himself amazingly.
Yes, she was certainly going to Southampton Water. From what Bertha had said to him the evening before, he had received a strong hope that she would reject Carthew.
"But if a man don't mind that, he's pretty sure of a job there." "By George, you tell me where to go!" cried Carthew rising.
"Nice place, Hong Kong?" he said. "I'm sure I don't know," said the officer. "Only a day and a half there; called for orders and came straight on here. Never heard of such a beastly cruise." And he went on describing and lamenting the untoward fortunes of the Tempest. But Wicks and Carthew heeded him no longer.
It seemed he had put the matter to his friend at once, and that Carthew took it with an inimitable lightness. "He's poor, and I'm rich," he had said. "I can afford to smile at him. I go somewhere else, that's all somewhere that's far away and dear to get to. Persia would be found to answer, I fancy. No end of a place, Persia. Why not come with me?"
But there was no counsel, no light of reason, in that ecstasy of battle; and he shied from the pursuit of victory to hail fresh blows upon the supine Hemstead, so that the stool was shattered and the cabin rang with their violence. The sight of that post-mortem cruelty recalled Carthew to the life of instinct, and his revolver was in hand and he had aimed and fired before he knew.
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