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As Wuthering Heights was popular because it was little more than a brilliant presentation of the love passion, so Many Cargoes and Light Freights are popular as well as excellent because they aim at nothing but the broad effect of laughter. Mr. Jacobs is inferior to Dickens because he is a humorist and nothing more, and also because he has an infinitely narrower range.
As a young man he trains with the gang, because it furnishes the means of gratifying his inordinate vanity; that is the slum's counterfeit of self-esteem. Upon the Jacobs of other days there was a last hold, the father's authority. Changed conditions have loosened that also. There is a time in every young man's life when he knows more than his father.
"Eh, what is it?" said Heyton, with an oath. "What do you want? I don't want to be bothered just now; got plenty of my own affairs on my mind." But he followed the detective. Mr. Jacobs closed the door and stood, on one side of the table, looking at Heyton on the other. "Yes, this has been a most upsetting business for you, my lord," he said.
They recognize that I belong with the after-guard in the high place. Oh, nothing was said; but it was patent by the way almost every man looked at me, or refused to look at me. Only Mulligan Jacobs and Charles Davis were outspoken. "Good riddance," said Mulligan Jacobs. "The Guinea didn't have the spunk of a louse. And he's better off, ain't he?
D. Geissler, a Weimaranian surgeon, renders a similar report and adds that in some cases these victims suffered untold agonies before they died. Lieutenant Jacobs states that some said good bye to their comrades and laid down along the road to die, that others acted like maniacs, cursed their fate, fell down, rose again, and fell down once more, never to rise again.
There is a story about a bear and an Indian hunter, which will show how bears eat berries. It is from the Journal of Peter Jacobs, the Indian Missionary: "At sunrise, next morning," he says, "we tried to land, but the water was so full of shoals, we could not without wading a great distance. We were all weary and hungry, but thinking it was a fellow-creature in distress, we pulled towards him.
This sequence too, I think, may very fairly be used to teach us the lesson that there is no kind of character so debased but that it may partake of the purifying and ennobling influence. All the Jacobs may be turned into righteous ones, however crafty, however subtle, however selfish, however worldly they are.
Captain West, who in this bad weather sleeps in the chart-room, stood in the lee doorway of the house, through which the lamplight streamed on the frightened faces of the men. Those of the 'midship-house were not present, but every man Jack of the forecastle, with the exception of Andy Fay and Mulligan Jacobs, as I afterwards learned, had joined in the flight aft.
"The lady who writes this letter, Mr. Jacobs, the Donna Elvira of whom you have spoken, is my wife. We have been separated for years. The cause? Nothing that can cast a shadow of dishonour on her. I was wandering in South America when I met her; we fell in love, were married in haste.
"I'll run out there disguised. Maybe I can go through with it." "No!" ordered his father, positively, and with dark face flaming. "Guy an' Jacobs are dead. We cain't help them now." "But, dad " pleaded Jean. He had been wrought to a pitch by Esther's blaze of passion, by the agony in the face of the other woman. "I tell y'u no!" thundered Gaston Isbel, flinging his arms wide.
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