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"Oiling the saw again, I see," I said at last glancing with reverent admiration of such benign industry at the oil-can. "No," said Captain Leezur kindly; "I wa'n't, I was a-goin' deown, by 'n' by, to the cove, to ca'm the water deown, 'n' see ef I c'd spear up a few fleounders; but I ain't in no hurry. I'd jest as soon set areound on the int'rust o' my money!"
Captain Leezur did swallow a little hard with the effort not to appear too highly flattered! "So I sot there an' giv' 'em my views on moderation. I must say for 'em, they appeared dreadful interested; they sot kind o' leanin' forrards, with their meouths not more 'n harf 'n' sartin not more 'n a quarter ways shet; an' when I'd got through, they giv' me another reousin' three cheers ag'in.
I could not wonder that Vesty was now loftier toward me than ever. Uncle Coffin, Captain Pharo, Captain Leezur and I kept close together as a sort of brazen and disgraceful community. Uncle Coffin, having to retrace his steps to Artichoke, was the first to leave the party.
Come to my ball Gurdon promised me you would both come." "It 's said," said Captain Leezur, who sat on the log fondly applying his deer-bone toothpick, which had been restored to him for a season, "'t ye keep yer mouth shet, and ye won't eat no crow." His smile embraced the heavens, as the source of such philosophy, with transcendent admiration. "That 's figgeral language, ye know.
I looked at Captain Leezur to see if no suspicion of earthly treachery was on his sun-blessed visage. None. I lifted my hat with a nameless reverence too deep for words, and left him, still smiling upward. Fluke played, with the dense black hair tossing above his handsome eyes, but Gurdon with a calm brow, though he too loved the music and dancing.
"Never mind, Kirtland, she 's all thar'. The furderest time 't I ever looked ahead," said the voice of Shamgar, "was once in war time. All to once the thought come to me, 'Mebbe herrin'll be high tew. And sure enough herrin' was high!" "The furderest time 't I ever looked ahead " deliciously began Captain Leezur. "G'long! ye old fool! Git up! ye old skate!"
He winked at Captain Pharo and Uncle Coffin. The sweet girl blushed disdainfully for some one and, with a lingering touch on the dear man's shoulder, went away. "I've all'as been kiled over a good deal," explained Captain Leezur gently, with a smile the subtlety of which he sought in a measure to hide. "And we mustn't forgit," he added, "that thar 's a time for all things under the sun.
She must 'a' sot there some three or four hunderd pretty consid'rable number o' years, 's it was. Don't want to ride a free hoss to death, ye know. I wish 't this critter that's visitin' up to Garrison's Neck could be got sot a spall. She fa'rly w'ars me out." Captain Leezur blinked at the sun, however, all heavenly placid and unworn. "I happened to meet her in the lane," I said.
He rings out, clear, amid any false notes; it is a grand satire; sometimes the dry bones quake." "Lord sakes!" said Captain Leezur, turning on me with deep-smitten dismay; "I heered how't he was bein' successful!" "His financial speculations seem touched with magic, they say; he is courted, feared, praised, maligned; he laughs and rings out, the true note!
At which we all, including Pershal and Miss Pray, laughed inordinately, gazing out into the sweet Basin night; and indeed I was even ready to avow with my life that it was a joke of the extremest savor. Even had all Uncle Coffin's sins been known, he would have been forgiven. Captain Leezur put on Vesty's shawl for her: "Sence I'm the han'somest man in the room," he gurgled. "So you are!"
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