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Bessie had never wavered in her protecting kindness to Janey, and Janey served her now with devotion, and promised eternal remembrance and gratitude. When a fortnight came to an end at Luc-sur-Mer, Bessie returned to Bayeux, and Janey went back to the Rue St. Jean. Before the school reopened came into port at Caen the Petrel, and John Fricker, the master-mariner, carried away his daughter.
A few more will sink her! Already the water floods inboard." The Prince looked up, and as he did so the shaggy beard showed once more and two brawny arms swept downward. A great slug, whizzing down, beat a gaping hole in the deck, and fell rending and riving into the hold below. The master-mariner tore his grizzled hair. "Another leak!" he cried. "I pray to Saint Leonard to bear us up this day!
Bessie's heart had begun to beat very hard. "Is it?" said she in a tone of apprehension. "Do they profess to despise you?" "More than that they do despise me; they don't know how to scorn me enough. But you are not common, so why should you be afraid? My father is a master-mariner John Fricker of Great Yarmouth. What is yours?"
He had, while passing along the quay, observed a house with a large wooden quadrant over the door, and on inquiry he found that a certain master-mariner, Captain Trickett, who gave lessons in astronomy and navigation, resided there. He made bold to enter, and explaining his wish to master the subjects the captain taught, soon entered into an arrangement to attend three evenings a week.
From the latter circumstance he named the country Snowland. Four years after a Swedish master-mariner was driven by stress of storm to this same land, and, building a house, spent the winter there. During the following summer he sailed around the land, demonstrating that it was an island, and called it after his own name, Gardar's Island.
This was evidently a blow to his professional pride. "Didn't any of that great pack come near you?" asked the Admiral sympathetically. "No don't think so," said Dermott shortly. I had counted eight birds flying straight over his butt myself, but I said nothing. I was beginning to comprehend. Et ego in Arcadia vixi. But the obtuse master-mariner persisted.
Thereout we looked, over the degraded garden, to the lower quarters of the town as if, indeed, we were perched high up on waves and even to a segment of the broad bay that swept by them. But the room itself! What phantasy of old sea-dog or master-mariner had conceived it? What palsied spirit, condemned to rust in inactivity, had found solace in this burlesque of shipcraft?
Time will dispose of your rivals. Just believe in yourself, and work and wait and dare and keep on working, waiting, daring. Never let up; and never doubt your ultimate success. Think of Columbus, Drake, Magellan the story of every master-mariner has in it food for your necessary egotism. Do not underestimate your strength. There are things you would like to do; very well, sail in and do them.
Master Nugent whistled thoughtfully, and quitting the kitchen proceeded upstairs to his room, and first washing himself with unusual care for a boy of thirteen, put on a clean collar and brushed his hair. He was not going to provide a suspended master-mariner with any obvious reasons for fault-finding. While he was thus occupied the sitting-room bell rang, and Ann, answering it, left Mr.
Veer the sheet!" and strange it was to him to see how swiftly the blood-stained sailors turned from the strife to the ropes and back. Now the cog's head was turned Francewards, and the shipman walked the deck, a peaceful master-mariner once more. "There is sad scath done to the cog, Sir Nigel," said he.
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