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“No more trouble from this pair,” laughed the bearded one to his companion at the hatchway. “Now, I’ll douse the cabin light, and then we’ll cast off. This thing has moved along very slickly.” Eph, after having made up his mind to turn in early, had found his sleepy fit passing. He read for a while in the cabin, then pulled on a reefer and went up on deck.
"Peg Tatem, eh?" reflected Hippy. "How did you find us? Did Peg tell you where we were?" "I saw your smoke yesterday, but couldn't rightly place you till this morning when I smelled your smoke and found I was close to you. Are you going to douse the fire?" "I think not, sir," answered Grace. The ranger sprang from his horse and strode towards the campfire. Hippy stepped between him and the blaze.
Rosamund pushed over to him a plate of the celebrated Steynham pie, of her own invention, such as no douse in the county of Sussex could produce or imitate. 'What would you have the parsons do? she said. 'Take the rich by the throat and show them in the kitchen-mirror that they're swine running down to the sea with a devil in them. She had set him off again, but she had enticed him to eating.
Years before, in La Jolla, he had often suggested "Pool Therapy" as a way to douse the flames of a conflict burning within. In Malibu, as in La Jolla, my woes soon diffused among ripples from the impact of one hand slapping. I played in the shallow end during that LSD trip until Rama asked Sal, who was not tripping, to drive me home.
This he took in good part, and was really pleased, nodding his head with direful foreknowledge and mystery, until George Leach, the erstwhile cabin- boy, ventured some rough pleasantry on the subject. Now it happened that Leach was one of the sailors told off to douse Mugridge after his game of cards with the captain.
"She never could abide rough seas from a child, d'ye see, brother, and her wound troubleth her yet but never a word o' complaint, comrade aha, a great soul, a mighty spirit is hers, for all her woman's slenderness, Martin! Now, let fly your halyard, douse your sail so! Now ship oars and pull, camarado, pull!"
Two points off the starboard bow she bears." "The maintop, ahoy!" shouted Blackbeard. "Can ye see a vessel's spars?" "'Tis too hazy inshore. But unless my eyes play me tricks, a smudge of smoke arises." Jack Cockrell nervously confided to Joe: "That would be Captain Wellsby's campfire on the beach." "Trust him to douse it," was the easy assurance. "I feel better.
The squire, though taken aback, demanded: "And I suppose ye have the money ready to douse on pay day?" Hennion sniggered. "Yer won't be hard, thet I know, squire. I reckon yer'll go easy on me." "If ye think I'm going to spare ye on account of Phil ye are mightily out. I'll foreclose the moment each falls due, that I warn ye." "Haow kin yer foreclose whin theer ain't no courts?"
"Douse him douse the baby again!" shouted Neptune; and from the mode I was treated, I thought that I should have been nearly drowned, had not Mrs Neptune, or rather Amphitrite, interfered in a voice which was intended to be very affectionate, but which sounded as if the poor lady had a very sore throat, and begged that I might be allowed to return to my cradle to sleep out the remainder of my watch.
But in truth the sentiment that came welling up to those men at the front was of infinite comfort and kept alight a flame in them which no winter wind could douse.
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