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"Oh, papa!" exclaimed Kate Meldrum reproachfully, "how could you say that?" while Florry pinched his arm and seemed convulsed with laughter, which she endeavoured to choke down in vain, at some secret joke or other; but Captain Dinks, quite restored to his usual good-humour and politeness by Mr Meldrum's apology, did not notice the girls, and presently all were chatting together with the utmost cordiality, the captain enlarging on the excellent run he hoped to make to New Zealand, and promising the young ladies that they should see Madeira ere the week was out, for he anticipated that the south-easterly breeze they now had would carry them well past the Spanish coast and into the north-east trades, when their voyage would be all plain sailing down to the Equator.
Before the mutineer went below, however, he turned his scowling face towards the poop, the blood all streaming down from a rather ugly cut on the left temple, and shook his fist in the direction of Captain Dinks, although the latter did not see the gesture, for his face was turned at the moment to the binnacle. But, Mr Meldrum saw it.
Her father looked at the cheeks as red as apples and the eyes glowing with health, and, dropping into English, said with a sigh and shake of the head: "I dinks dot Nellie looks some bale." He meant to say pale, and Nick laughed. "I don't think she is very sick; she ate more breakfast than I did this morning."
"But it will beat all that," remarked Jack Carleton, after they had discussed the different plans, "to be paddled over in the canoe of Deerfoot." "Yaw, but I dinks dot we should go across last, night." "What would we have gained by that?" "Then we wouldn't have to go ober agin dis mornings."
Dinks, and he said to her, 'Miss Newt, what do you do when you go into church and put your head down? Fanny did not understand him, and asked him what he meant. 'Why, said he, 'when we go into church, you know, we all put our heads down in front of the pew, or in our hands, for a little while, and Dr. Maundy spreads his handkerchief on the desk and puts his face into it for quite a long time.
Mr Meldrum at once rushed to where Captain Dinks was standing close to the wheel-house, where two men had all they could do to control the helm, although they were the strongest hands on board, the one being Ben Boltrope, the ex-man-o'-war's-man, and the other Karl Ericksen, the Norwegian sailor who had been rescued from the boat, and who was a perfect giant now that he was restored to health and strength standing over six feet, and with long brawny arms that seemed as powerful as those of a windmill when he threw them about.
It was well known that she was in town. The beautiful Boston heiress was often enough the theme of discourse among the youth at Abel's rooms. "Is she really going to marry that Dinks? Why, the man's a donkey!" said Corlaer Van Boozenberg. "And are there no donkeys among your married friends?" inquired Abel, with the air of a naturalist pursuing his researches.
"It iss not so alvay," he said. "She hass made it all so good, and now she dinks of Brita, dat vill not see it, and she say still, 'God iss hard to take her avay." "How is it, Jan? Did work come all at once?" "No, and yet yes. Shall I say it all, my lady?" "Surely, Jan, if you have time."
She saw, therefore, that if Alfred Dinks were not rich and it certainly was a question whether he were so really, or only in expectation from Mr. Burt then also he might not be engaged to Hope Wayne. But the story of his wealth and his engagement might very easily have been the ruse by which the skillful Mrs. Dinks meant to conduct her campaign in New York.
Cal is standin' at the finish with his clock in his hand lookin' real contented. All of a sudden the bird makes a stagger, goes to his knees 'n' chucks the boy over his head. His swipe runs out 'n' grabs the bird 'n' leads him in a-limpin'. "Say! That bird's right-front tendon is bowed like a barrel stave! "This Cal Davis is a big owner. He's got all kinds of kale 'n' he don't fool with dinks.
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