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She was watching the brass-buttoned chief mate lording it on the fo'c'sle head, as he passed the lines to haul into the lock. Captain Price was watching him, too. He saw him smiling and talking over the rail to the girl. "Slack off that spring," he roared suddenly, as they began to let the ship down to the sea level; and the mate jumped for the coil on the bitts.
And more than all, if just previous to putting your hand into the tar-pot, you have been lording it as a country schoolmaster, making the tallest boys stand in awe of you. The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it. But even this wears off in time.
His own way had always been the right way for him rules of all orders to the contrary whether he had been a wandering gondolier, a despised barcariol toso, lording it so outrageously over the established traghetti that they were glad to forgive him his bandit crimes and swear him into membership, if only to stop his influence against them; or whether it had been the stealing away of a promised bride, as on that memorable day at San Pietro in Castello, when he had married Toinetta it was never safe to bear "vendetta" with one so strong and handsome and unprincipled as Piero.
"And were you sure aye to say your Grace to him?" said the good old lady; "for ane should make a distinction between MacCallummore and the bits o' southern bodies that they ca' lords here there are as mony o' them, Jeanie, as would gar ane think they maun cost but little fash in the making some of them I wadna trust wi' six pennies-worth of black-rappee some of them I wadna gie mysell the trouble to put up a hapnyworth in brown paper for But I hope you showed your breeding to the Duke of Argyle, for what sort of folk would he think your friends in London, if you had been lording him, and him a Duke?"
Again his hand went to the bell, and again Ringfield remonstrated, but his gauche utterances were of no avail in face of Crabbe's decision of character and natural lording of it. The boy appeared, the order was dispatched, and as Ringfield noticed the growing exaltation in the guide's manner, a sort of sickness stole upon him.
Well, he was right of course, so far as that went, and I begged his pardon. And, indeed, knowing as I did how he was set on playing the master and lording it over his men, I might have had more sense. But begging his pardon only seemed to egg him on; he felt deeply injured, and grew quite excited over it. "I'll have no more of this!" he said.
Ah! but if he should be ill, or even dead? What then? Claudia's anxiety grew daily more acute. She had heard nothing of the fate of her negroes. She learned by a second letter from Jean Murdock that Mrs. Dugald still remained at Castle Cragg, "lording it o'er a'," as the housekeeper expressed it.
They were sagging, and two of the telegraph poles were down. "Doubtless the tracks are twisted, too. We are fortunate to have the launch." Mac, so swollen with the prideful experience which enabled him to compare two great earthquakes, and his accumulations of practical data bearing thereon, appeared ten years younger, and, as Gwynne and Isabel rode up, was lording it over his fellow-hirelings.
Miserable dog's life is this of the sea! commanded like a slave, and set to work like an ass! vulgar and brutal men lording it over me, as if I were an African in Alabama. Yes, yes, blow on, ye breezes, and make a speedy end to this abominable voyage! What reminded me most forcibly of my ignominious condition, was the widely altered manner of the captain toward me.
'Through my belief in yours! They bowed smiling at the courtly exchanges. 'And tell me, said he, 'as to meeting me . . . ? She replied: 'When we are so like the rest of the world we may confess our weakness. 'Unlike! for the world and I meet and part: not we two. Clotilde attempted an answer: it would not come. She tried to be revolted by his lording tone, and found it strangely inoffensive.
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