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Then I told the chauffeur to take me to a toy-shop, where I stood staring through a plate-glass window at the elaborate playthings devised for the modern children of luxury. In the centre was a toy man-of-war, three feet in length, with turrets and guns, and propellers and a real steam-engine. As a boy I should have dreamed about it, schemed for it, bartered my immortal soul for it.
Again there came a faint boom, and at the same instant a crash, which told us that the shot had struck the ship. "Hurrah! I thought so," cried Tom; "there's a man-of-war in chase of us, and it is pretty evident that the `Vulture' has no wish to engage her, or she would not have been trying to get away, as she has been for some hours past." We waited now with intense anxiety.
As we lay in a roadstead, it mattered little, few vessels touching at the port. While at this place, there was an alarm of an attack from an English man-of-war that was seen in the offing, and priests enough turned out to defend an ordinary town.
"They are to be towed by a man-of-war until they are in the polar regions so as to save the supply of coal on the small steamer they are using," went on the captain. "Everything has been conducted with the utmost secrecy and it is their intention to beat us there if possible hence all this haste."
She did not stay to waken her sisters. She hastily put on her hat and went downstairs; and the first person she saw was Lieutenant King himself, who was calmly looking over the list of arrivals. to be infectious; even Nan felt herself smiling, though she thought that the commander of a man-of-war ought not to go on like this.
As opportunity offered, the firm used to send them on to Malata either by a man-of-war schooner going on a cruise, or by some trading craft proceeding that way. But for the last four months there had been no opportunity. Renouard, perfunctorily, did see no reason why he should make a long stay. "For health, for your mental health, my boy," rejoined the newspaper man.
While the Doctor and I are not novices at golf, this is one "bunker" we are making so little headway getting out of, that both now seem likely to quit "down" to it. I wonder when the little derelict, tiny and inconspicuous as a Portuguese man-of-war, may be picked up; I wonder when the sheets it bears may reach my publisher to whom it is consigned.
Meanwhile, the timber for the houses was being sent as I had opportunity, a large quantity having been already taken to Norfolk Island in a man-of-war. Luckily, timber was selling very cheap at Auckland. 'After this first month, Palmer set to work at house building.
The sky was so clear that they could see the smoke of many liners, hull down, making the Start. When they reached the crest of the hill above Dartmouth a man-of-war appeared, a three-funnelled cruiser, steaming fast towards the land. She was so fleet and strong that she seemed to share in the exhilaration of the day. They dropped down slowly into Dartmouth and lost sight of her.
Lydia waited a moment to recover, settled herself quietly in her chair, and replied, calmly, "I know what you tell me nothing more. And now, will you explain to me exactly what a prize-fighter is?" "He is simply what his name indicates. He is a man who fights for prizes." "So does the captain of a man-of-war. And yet society does not place them in the same class at least, I do not think so."
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