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The rudder being repaired so as to render her manageable, the lugger kept up a sort of retreating fight until night set in, when, as Harry said, "she gave the cutter the slip like a knotless thread."
The approach of the lugger produced some such effect on the mariners of this unsophisticated and little frequented port, as that of the hawk is known to excite among the timid tenants of the barn-yard.
In the evening, there was a fete prepared by the merchants, at which the First Consul remained for half an hour; and on Monday, at five o'clock in the morning, he embarked on a lugger for Honfleur. At the time of his departure the weather was a little threatening, and the First Consul was advised not to embark.
At any rate, life here would be very preferable to being in business with my father, in Nantes. I should never have settled down to that; and as my elder brother seems specially made for that sort of life, fortunately I was able to go my own way, to take to the sea in the lugger, and become the carrier of the firm, while taking my share in the general profits."
Talboys came up to the piano and said gravely, "Miss Fountain, are you aware of the fate of the lugger of the boat we went out in?" Indeed I am. I have sent the poor widow some clothes and a little money." "I have only just been informed of it," said Mr. Talboys, "and I feel under considerable obligations to Mr. Dodd." "The feeling does you credit."
Where was it agreed between the prisoner and his officers, that the former should find the lugger, when he returned from his expedition into the Bay?" "Well, now, gentlemen," answered Ithuel, turning his quid from one cheek into the other, "I some conclude you've no great acquaintance with Captain Rule, a'ter all. He is not apt to enter into any agreements at all.
Can it be possible he is up, off the town? There is such a fleet of craft in and about the mole that a little lugger, with her paint and marks altered, might be among them. What think you, Lyon?"
The lugger was often seen off there; but we could not then touch her, as she was never found with anything in her to enable us to prove that she was engaged in smuggling.
Every sail the Thisbe could carry was set, while the lugger, spreading out her broad canvas, did her best to escape. "Perhaps the fellows think we may press some of them, and are simply anxious to escape being overhauled," observed Harry.
"Here, you young doctor, take that pannikin, and bale out some of that water you're lying in. You don't want another bath, do you?" Bob Chowne got up on to his knees in the bottom of the boat, shivering and blue, and stared wildly at us all in turn. "Cold, eh?" growled old Jonas. "Well, then, I'll bale, and you two row to the lugger."
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