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As there was no objection to his so doing, he was allowed to go round the decks, when he might have counted thirty-six guns, and as fine a looking crew as ever stepped the deck of a man-of-war. At length Captain Nathan Noakes returned on board the Hickory Stick. Afterwards, when I repeated to the boatswain the remarks of Captain Noakes, his observation was
Christine's eyes were wide with the bewildered stare of an intelligence that has suddenly been aroused to new aspects: she was having a glimpse of a side to her father's character that had never been revealed to her before. She put forth a hand and drew Ruby Noakes close beside her, pressing her hand tightly in actual alarm.
I'll see into this, take my word for 't. Our honour is at stake. Now let's back to see my beauty home. 'We can't, as we hav'n't got our hats, said one of his fellow-troopers in domestic life Jacob Noakes, of Muckleford Farm. 'No more we can, said Festus, in a melancholy tone. 'But I must go to her and tell her the reason. She pulls me in spite of all. 'She's gone.
Percy Noakes, who had just ascended from the fore-cabin, where he had been busily engaged in decanting the wine, ‘if the Misses Briggs will oblige us with something before dinner, I am sure we shall be very much delighted.’ One of those hums of admiration followed the suggestion, which one frequently hears in society, when nobody has the most distant notion what he is expressing his approval of.
Jennings," to the butler, "you know the kind of basket Miss Vanderpoel wants. Speak to Mrs. Noakes, please." "Yes, my lady," Jennings knew the kind of basket and so did Mrs. Noakes. Below stairs a strong sympathy with Miss Vanderpoel's movements had developed. No one resented the preparation of baskets. Somehow they were always managed, even if asked for at untimely hours.
Percy Noakes panted with the violence of his exertions.
But the tragedy for the poor old music-teacher grew even more melancholy in its termination; for one day, as he was sitting disconsolately under a currant-bush in the garden, practising his poor old notes in a quiet way, THUMP came a great blow of a hoe, which nearly broke his back. "Hallo! what ugly beast have we got here?" said Tom Noakes, the gardener's boy. "Here, here, Wasp, my boy."
'O Lord! said Noakes, with a slight falling of the lower jaw. 'The man who quails now is unworthy of the name of yeoman, said Festus, still keeping ahead of the other troopers and holding up his sword to the sun. 'O Noakes, fie, fie! You begin to look pale, man.
Still, I could see a good deal that was going forward through the ports; besides which I heard from the men what was taking place. My old messmate, Tom Noakes, had joined the `Dido. He was now seated on his tub next to me the biggest powder-monkey I ever knew. Poor Tom was not at all happy.
"What do you think of her, Noakes?" asked the lieutenant of the coxswain, as they got nearer. The old seaman took a steady glance at the stranger, surveying her from truck to water-line.
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