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In less than half an hour ten regulars, some of them but very little older than Billie and Adrian, were ready for the ride which Billie had proposed and which in his mind would be as far as Moreno. "You are sure ten will be enough?" asked Lieutenant Grant. "Sure! Twelve Americans are enough to lick fifty Mexicans if it comes to that; and besides we shall have Mr. Black and Josie.
His commission was read, all hands with their hats off from respect to the authority from which it proceeded. "Now, my lads," said Captain Kearney, addressing the ship's company, "I've but a few words to say to you. I am appointed to command this ship, and you appear to have a very good character from your late first lieutenant.
Ha, ha, ha, ha!" And he laughed, doubling himself up, roaring, with wild delight in his glances. When the officer, who understood his strange manner of expressing himself, had questioned him he said: "Well, au revoir, Timbuctoo. I will see you again." The negro rose, this time shaking the hand that was extended to him and, smiling still, cried: "Good-day, good-day, my lieutenant!"
Of course, it caused some trouble to collect this wild, undisciplined armament, and two or three successive points of rendezvous were necessary; and it was the morning of the 8th before we entered the river. Lieutenant Wilmot Horton was to command the expedition; with him, in the pinnace, were Mr. W. L. Partridge, mate; Dr. Simpson, assistant-surgeon; Mr.
"I only wanted to ask if you noticed anything to make you think perhaps there was an understanding between Miss Brooke and the lieutenant?" "Why should I?" "I ain't curious why you should. What I want to know is, did you?" "No, monsieur," Lanyard lied blandly. "The little lady didn't seem to take on more'n she naturally would if the lieutenant'd been a stranger, eh?"
"I must no longer delay, for I am already late, and with my own good will I would rather not be out after dusk, considering the sort of people likely to be abroad." "By-the-bye, I have not congratulated you on Lieutenant Castleton's safe return. I received the news from Miss Pemberton just as I was leaving home yesterday, and nothing has given me greater pleasure in life.
"Lieutenant Tibbetts," said Hamilton of the Houssas severely, "have you no sense of decency?" "Sense of decency, my dear old thing!" repeated Bones. "I am simply full of it. That is why I have come."
The three boats converged toward each other as they hauled off, and as soon as we were within speaking distance of them the second lieutenant inquired of Armitage and Williams whether they had suffered much.
Augustine The Spanish do not venture out to attack him Returns to the Islands sees that the Forts are repaired Takes passage to England to attend a Court Martial on an insidious charge against him by Lieutenant Cook Is honorably acquitted, and Cook is dismissed from the service,
The partial and malignant historian, who misrepresents every action of his reign, affirms, that the emperor did not appear in the field of battle till the Barbarians had been vanquished by the valor and conduct of his lieutenant Promotus.
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