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"All hands on deck; starboard forebrace!" was all the answer Foster made. Then he went to the signal locker, and getting out the American ensign, with his own hands ran it up to the peak, hoping by this means to get close enough to the other ship to prevent her from running away from a fight, if the captain should turn out not one of the fighting sort.
"Well, I've won your grog, Jim," cried one of the marines, who was standing at the forebrace; "I knew he'd never do it." "He's like me," observed another, in a low tone; "he left school too arly, and lost his edication." Such were the results of injudicious patronage. Judicious regulations have put a stop to such selfish and short-sighted patronage.
By God!" he exclaimed, mournfully, after a short pause, "life is foul! Foul like a lee forebrace on a dirty night. And yet. And yet. One must see it clear for running before going below for good. Now you attend to what I said," he added, sharply, "if you don't want to quarrel with me, my boy." "I don't want to quarrel with you," murmured Almayer with unwilling deference.
"I'm not so sure o' that, now," replied Ben, knitting his brows, and gazing earnestly at the forebrace, which happened to be conveniently in front of his eyes; "see here, s'pose, for the sake of argiment, that you've got a mothers an' she marries a second time which some mothers is apt to do, you know, and her noo husband has got a pretty niece.
"Well, I've won your grog, Jim," cried one of the marines, who was standing at the forebrace; "I knew he'd never do it." "He's like me," observed another, in a low tone; "he left school too 'arly, and lost his edication." Such were the results of injudicious patronage.
We stood sleepily in a row with the forebrace in our hands waiting for the next order, and heard in the darkness a scuffly trampling of feet, an exclamation of surprise, sounds of cuffs and slaps, suppressed, hissing whispers: "Ah! Will you!"... "Don't!... Don't!"... "Then behave."... "Oh!
The response was prompt, for the British sailor fights with unsurpassable heroism, but at the critical moment the forebrace was carried away, the ship was thrown into the wind and exposed to a raking fire. The American instantly seized the advantage and swept the decks with murderous destructiveness. In a brief time the Macedonian was completely disabled.
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