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The boatmen too were continually whispering to each other in dismay, and looking with distrust at the three strangers, whose servants even began more and more to forebode something uncomfortable, and to watch their superiors with suspicious glances. Huldbrand often said to himself: "This comes from like not being linked with like, from a man uniting himself with a mermaid!"
These reflections flashed through Leslie's brain even as he lowered the telescope from his eye, and, calling to Flora, he pointed out to her the burning brig, saying "Look at that, sweetheart! The poor old Mermaid is on fire, and we are about to see the last of her.
Jimmie screamed, and we all rushed down and fished her out of the boat dripping like a mermaid and thoroughly chilled. Bee took her in to warm her with a brandy and to hurry her into dry clothes, while I remained to see what I could do for Jimmie, who was very wet, very mad, and very uncommunicative. "What a pity," I remarked, pleasantly, "that you are so thin.
My name's Potter James Potter; and this brig's the Mermaid, of London, bound out to Valparaiso with a general cargo. And this," he added, directing the girl's attention toward a slight, active-looking man who stood beside him, "is my only mate, Mr Purchas."
All I remember afterwards was dreaming the fish had changed into a mermaid, and was holding out her arms to me, and waiting for me to make up my mind, and I was thinking that if I leaped into them, the sea would have no power over me, and then plunging down and finding not her arms, but the cold sea, then waking up and actually feeling the cold water dashing over me, and a moment after, some one seizing me, and hurrying me on deck amid shrieks and screams, and then finding myself in a little boat, crowded with wet people, and tossing about in the dark, not knowing which was sea, which was sky.
And I could back-dive with a once- over and go in feet-first from eighty feet above the surface " "Quit it, delete it, cease it," Chauncey Delarouse admonished testily. "Tell of the Princess. That's what makes old blood leap again. Almost can I see her. Was she wonderful?" Percival Delaney kissed unutterable affirmation. "I have said she was a mermaid. She was.
Must have been stung by a jelly-fish or something. I've heard " I cut her short. "Mermaid dear, I'm as sane as you are, only " "Only what?" "Everybody's doing it" she recoiled "doing it! Listen to me. True, that is your chemise. True, that out there is my hat there it is. But here is Berry's shirt, and miles out there is Daphne's straw hat.
You heard her? Now Macartney and I are both called James. But who ever made a Jimmy of him?" She was annoyed with him the man seemed to suppose she could be pleased by crabbing James and glad of Margery Dacre, a mermaid in sea-green, who swam in with apologies due to Macartney's abhorrent eyeglass upon her.
Be who she might, however, Christie's Will declared, upon the faith of the long shablas of Johnny Armstrong, that he would carry her off through fire and water, as sure as ever Kinmont Willie was carried away by old Wat of Buccleuch from the Castle of Carlisle. "Oh, was it war-wolf in the wood, Or was it mermaid in the sea, Or was it maid or lurdon auld, He'd carry an' bring her bodilie."
I did not have to envy him long; for, a week later, I was turned over to the Mermaid, a new second-class cruiser just commissioned to join the eastern division of the Mediterranean Fleet, to take the place for the time of one of the smaller ships belonging to the squadron, under refit at Malta, our orders being then to proceed to the Red Sea, where it was expected that Osman Digna would be making matters warm in and about Suakin later on in the year.
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