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Several days passed by, and, as far as Owen could judge, Nat was better treated than formerly; he hoped, therefore, that his remarks to the mate had produced some effect. The mate's manner, however, was distant and surly, showing that he had no good feeling towards him. When crossing the line the usual ceremonies were gone through, the captain not considering it necessary to forbid them.
One result of his submitting the MS. of Erewhon to Miss Savage was that she thought he ought to write a novel, and urged him to do so. I have no doubt that he wrote the memoir of John Pickard Owen with the idea of quieting Miss Savage and also as an experiment to ascertain whether he was likely to succeed with a novel.
'Ah that's what everybody says who has been keen enough to notice anything. I said so at first. And yet now I cannot persuade myself that she is in love with him at all. 'Why can't you? 'She doesn't act as if she were. She isn't you will know I don't say it from any vanity, Owen she isn't the least jealous of me. 'Perhaps she is in some way in his power. 'No she is not.
Owen now bade the captain and mistress Norah good night, and went on deck, when he desired the boatswain the only person besides himself to whom the charge of the ship could be confided to turn in, that he might relieve him in the next watch, should the weather continue to improve as he hoped it would do.
The teeth of this last-mentioned pachyderm were at first, in 1840, supposed to belong to a monkey, an opinion afterwards abandoned by Owen when more ample materials for comparison were obtained.
"I look it, but I don't quite feel it yet," said Boyd, with deep meaning. "There is something lacking." "What can it be?" asked Hicks. "About three fingers of red-eye," the sailor explained, pointing to a saloon. "That will make my disguise just perfect." In the saloon Hicks and Owen made a little map, wrinkled it and soiled it on the floor, then gave it to the pirate.
We arranged to have our meals with Owen at the store, and we slept in a rough palm-thatched shed with a raised flooring of split palm-trunks, which was very hard and rough to sleep on, and gave me a sleepless night. We got two of our police to sleep in front of the doorway, as it was more than likely that the natives might attempt to murder us.
The consequence was, that Owen never suffered from him again, although he daily received a shower of oaths and curses, which he passed over with silent contempt. My dear boy-reader, don't suppose that I want you to imitate Owen in this matter.
'The whole town is looking out for us, had been Graye's impression throughout the day. He called upon Mr. Gradfield the only man who had been directly informed of his coming and found that Mr. Gradfield had forgotten it. However, arrangements were made with this gentleman a stout, active, grey-bearded burgher of sixty by which Owen was to commence work in his office the following week.
The wretched thought haunted Mara that Owen Clancy, unblinded, had discovered for himself, what had been forced upon her, that there were Northern people with whom he could gladly affiliate.
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