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"With pleasure," replied the governess, and both ladies left the office. "Mademoiselle," sounded despairingly behind them. "Well?" asked Clary, stopping. "I do not promise for certain," stammered Mortimer, "but I believe " "Vessel, captain, mate, and sailors." "Yes, dear me, yes," groaned Mortimer, dropping exhausted into a chair. "And to-morrow at daybreak "
For this purpose he had brought twenty armed men from Aneityum, who came on shore in two boats in charge of the mate, the notorious Ross Lewin. He returned to the ship with a boat-load of Mr. Mathieson's things, leaving ten of the Natives to help us to pack more and carry them down to the beach, especially what the Missionary thought most valuable.
As soon as they have lost one mate they take another. Yet William, forgetting our relative positions, drew himself up and raised his fist, and if I had not stepped back I swear he would have struck me. The highly improper words William used I will omit, out of consideration for him.
"Yes, I knew," said my lady her eyes shining. "She is passing through what I might pass through if ! Those two poor souls rustics, and ignorant, who to greater people seem like cattle they were man and woman who had loved and mated. They could not have told their joy or the meaning of it. I could I could! And now her mate is gone and the world is empty, and she is driven mad. I know, I know!
A mate, an engineer, four stokers, a dozen seamen, eighteen men in all, formed the crew of the Dream. And if the ship was contented to get quietly through eight miles an hour, she possessed a great many excellent nautical qualities.
'By George! replied the keeper, shaking his head so emphatically that he was obliged to frown to keep his hat on. 'I never come across such a vagabond, and my mate says the same.
Blinks, I've found your man," said the doctor, when the paymaster's steward made his appearance. "Well, my fine fellow," said Blinks, turning to the mate, and smiling grimly, "how do you feel by this time? Very pleasant morning, isn't it! I knew I'd catch you, you scoundrel," he exclaimed, suddenly changing his tune; "I'll teach you to steal my pies!"
"Well, what can we do?" "Keep the fellow tied, and wait for night," I answered soberly. "That is our only chance. The mate is ashore we are lying in the cove of a small island off the Florida coast, waiting for darkness, and a chance to slip through into southern waters." "Do you know where this boat is bound?" "Yes Spanish Honduras; we are loaded with munitions of war," I laughed.
"This fool of a mate has got caught in shore and we can't make steam enough to hold our own against this wind." I had not thought of this; I was chafing at the delay and the discomfort to Laura and the children. What was the worst in the case was still to be known.
"We would have told you all," she said, "but how dare we involve you, or how dare we tempt you, or how dare we risk your refusal? It was love and truth drove us to this; and God will bless this mating as the birds mate, even as He gives honour to Gabord who was born upon a truss of hay."
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