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All the starboard side of the bulk-head was filled by a piano, which was bevelled off at its lower right-hand corner so as to fit against the sheathing. Cospatric followed my glance. "Yes, it's an upright 'grand, and German, specially made. It is rather bulky for the size of the ship, but you see we're a bit musical here. Haigh plays. By the way, you haven't seen Haigh yet."
"A man," said he, "who never knows one minute whether he may not be arrested and have his pockets cleared the next, should never be without these. Señor Briton, use your big strength and tear away all that seems you good. I will satisfy the driver." "Hooray!" shouted Haigh. "If there's one thing I do love, it's destruction. Cospatric, I'll bear a hand here.
And off he went to the window with a handful of the crystals, and scratched the glass with them, satisfying himself that they were really diamonds. "Michael Cospatric," said he, "'tis a great man y'are, and I'll just go down and let on to the landlord in confidence that you're an American marquis travelling incognito."
But they are hideously inartistic, and, moreover, to a man of ordinarily fickle nature, are apt to bring in very damning evidence at the most inopportune moments. The adaptability of the medium for artistic design is a matter open to argument. However, Cospatric bore upon his person better specimens than I have ever seen before.
We had both been of the same year, and although in a small college that argues some knowledge of one another, we were by no means in the same set. In fact, up there Cospatric had been rather an anomaly: a man in no clique, a man without a nickname, a man distinguished only by the halo of his exit.
"FONDA FORGET-WHAT, ALCUDIA, MALLORCA, "Tuesday morning, 1.37 a.m. "MOST WORTHY SEÑORES, Once more let me write 'Hereingefallen, and if two of you fail to appreciate its delicate and subtle import, I am sure that the polyglot Mr. Michael Cospatric will courteously interpret. "Your arrival here came to me, I own, as a trifling surprise. I had not expected such pressing attention.
"I must request you not to be profane in my presence, Mr. Cospatric." "H'm! I'm feeling as if a little profanity would do me good just now." "Then let me use the word 'blasphemy. I object strongly to having my ears polluted by it. Blasphemy " "Oh, curse you," I broke out savagely, "stow that rubbish. After coquetting with murder, you've little call to preach about minor morals.
We were all heaped over to leeward amongst a tidy heap of wreckage; but we soon managed to scramble out, and saw the fugitives making rapid going towards their boat. "Now, Cospatric, ye wiry divil," shouted Haigh, "run for all you're worth, and put Pether in your pocket." Off I started, and measured my length twice in the first fifty yards.
We quite agreed with Cospatric that Classics and Mathematics, and Natural Science as she is taught at Cambridge, are one and all of them useless burdens, not worth the gathering; but we were not prepared to say with him that we hungered after the acquisition of French, German, Spanish, Norsk, and Italian, or eke Lingua Franca or Japanese.
So we did that dropped down with the ebb, stepped over the rail, bidding Ulus go his ways with boat and news and trophies. As our shoes clattered on the grimy deck-planks, a close-cropped head bobbed up through the forehatch, bowed, and retired. "That's Celestin," said Cospatric, "my professional crew. He's principally cook; and at times he's a very good cook, as you may learn.
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