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After taking a glass of warm rum-and-water at a tavern close by, to collect his thoughts, the Captain made a rush down the court, lest its good effects should evaporate, and appeared suddenly to Mr Perch. 'Matey, said the Captain, in persuasive accents.
That was fun to set boys jigging. No wonder how in Russia the Cossacks feared him, and scampered from the shadow of his plumes were clouds flying off his breath! That was a fine warm picture for the boys on late autumn or early winter evenings, Shalders warming his back at the grate, describing bivouacs in the snow. They liked well enough to hear him when he was not opposing Matey and Lord Ormont.
He expressed his pleasure at my kindness by a glance from his sunken eyes that told of a warm heart, even if it beat within the breast of a robber. "Thank you, matey," the old man said; "but it's of little use to try and right the hull when there's a shot between wind and water, and the top-hamper is gone. Nevertheless, I take it in kindness."
He was a sly young rascal, innocently precocious enough, and he meant no disrespect either to Browny or to Matey; but he had to run for it, his delivery of the name being so like what was in the breasts of the senior fellows, as to the inferiority of any Aminta to old Matey, that he set them laughing; and Browny was on the field, to reprove them, left of the tea-booth, with her school-mates, part of her head under a scarlet parasol.
'You're satisfied I swim well? she said. 'It would go hard with me if we raced a long race. 'I really was out for France. 'I was ordered to keep you for England. She gave him Browny's eyes. 'We've turned our backs on Triton. 'The ceremony was performed. 'When? 'The minute I spoke of it and you splashed. 'Matey! Matey Weyburn! 'Browny Farrell! 'Oh, Matey! she's gone! 'She's here.
She was not so guileless at the thought of little Selina Collett here, and of Selina as the letter-bearer of old; and the marvel that Matey and Browny and Selina were together after all! Was it not a kind of summons to her to call him Matey just once, only once, in play? She burned and ached to do it.
I don't quite understand how you can be so sure." "His voice, sir. I knew his voice, which is kind o' thick and foggy. He tapped at the winder, about three it would be. 'Show a leg, matey, says he: 'time to turn out guard. My old man woke up Jim, that's my eldest, and away they went, without so much as a word to me. I could hear the wooden leg clackin' on the stones."
Why, C.E. stands for Civil Engineer, which is the gentleman's purfession, says he. And that's how I come to know it, matey." "Well, civil or not civil, I maintain he ain't a bit better than any of us," insisted Williams; "and I want to know by what right he or anybody else is to be allowed to give themselves airs over the likes of us. Can he do anything that any of us can't do?
'Hurricane, he says to me; 'straight up from the West Indies, and them boys is out! I tell you it did give me a turn aye, aye matey!" as Dan came hurrying up the beach. "Ye made it all right again wind an' tide but where's the other?" "Laddie, my laddie!" cried Brother Bart, his ruddy face paling. "Speak up, Dan Dolan! Has harm come to him?"
The son of a tradesman, if a boy fell under the imputation, was worthy of honour with him, let the fellow but show grip and toughness. He loathed a skulker, and his face was known for any boy who would own to fatigue or confess himself beaten. "Go to bed," was one of his terrible stings. Matey was good at lessons, too liked them; liked Latin and Greek; would help a poor stumbler.
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