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Duncalf said that he must really be going, and, having arranged with the Mayor-elect to call a special meeting of the Council at once, he did go, all the while wishing he had the enterprise to stay. Josiah accompanied him to the front-door. The sky had now cleared. 'Thank ye for calling, said the host. 'Oh, that's all right. Good-night, Curtenty. Got that goose out of the canal?
Wonderful white man! my canoe is waiting for you. Let us go back." The officers and men then took their holiday on shore, with the exception of Mr. Duncalf, who positively refused to leave the ship.
The dead calm continued, and the airless heat. As the day declined, another ominous appearance became visible. A thin line of smoke was discovered through the telescope, ascending from the topmost peak of the mountain on the main island. Was the volcano threatening an eruption? The mate, for one, entertained no doubt of it. "By the Lord, the place is going to burst up!" said Mr. Duncalf.
The trick of speech had been enormously effective with Shillitoe, for instance, and with the Countess. He was in process of acquiring renown for it. Certainly it was effective now. Mr Duncalf's dance with the Countess had come to an ignominious conclusion in the middle, Mr Duncalf preferring to dance on skirts rather than on the floor, and the fact was notorious.
'Pond has just come back, father, said Harry; 'I drove up the hill with him. And as Josiah hesitated a moment in the hall, he heard Clara exclaim, 'Oh, Harry! 'Damn! he murmured. The Signal of the following day contained the announcement which Mr. Duncalf had forecast; it also stated, on authority, that Mr.
Just behind her was his employer, Mr Duncalf, whom Denry had not previously noticed there. Denry regretted this, for he had never mentioned to Mr Duncalf that he was coming to the ball, and he feared Mr Duncalf. "Could I have this dance with you?" he demanded bluntly, but smiling and showing his teeth. No ceremonial title! No mention of "pleasure" or "honour."
Twelve hours of recreation, beginning with the next morning, were granted to the men, under the wise restrictions in such cases established by the Captain. That interval over, the work of cutting the precious wood and loading the ship was to be unremittingly pursued. Mr. Duncalf had the first watch after the Fortuna had been made snug.
'Ask him in here, Mary, said the Deputy-Mayoress sweetly; 'and bring another cup and saucer. Mr. Duncalf was the Town Clerk of Bursley: legal, portly, dry, and a little shy. 'I won't stop, Curtenty. How d'ye do, Mrs. Curtenty? No, thanks, really But she, smiling, exquisitely gracious, flattered and smoothed him into a chair. 'Any interesting news, Mr.
He considered himself different from other men. His thoughts would run: "Anybody but me would have knuckled down to Duncalf and remained a shorthand clerk for ever." "Who but me would have had the idea of going to the ball and asking the Countess to dance?... And then that business with the fan!" "Who but me would have had the idea of taking his rent-collecting off Duncalf?"
The Fortuna touched at Rio for water, and for supplies of food which might prove useful in case of scurvy. In due time the ship rounded Cape Horn, favored by the finest weather ever known in those latitudes by the oldest hand on board. The mate one Mr. Duncalf a boozing, wheezing, self-confident old sea-dog, with a flaming face and a vast vocabulary of oaths, swore that he didn't like it.
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