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The capture of the first frigate in a war is always an object of much interest; and the circumstances of the late action, the merit of which was enhanced by the skill and gallantry of the enemy, gave additional importance to Captain Pellew's success.
Percival stands waiting for more, one-third of his cigar in abeyance between his finger-tips. Getting no more, he continues: "Why you don't mean to say?..." "What?" "Well it's something like this, if I can put the case. Take somebody you've just met and spoken to...." But Mr. Pellew's prudence became suddenly aware of a direction in which the conversation might drift, and he pulled up short.
The construction of these craft was superintended by a lieutenant afterwards Admiral Schank of scientific knowledge as a ship architect; and through close association with him Pellew's instinctive appreciation of all things nautical received an intelligent guidance, which gave him a quick insight into the probable behavior of a ship from an examination of her build, and enabled him often to suggest a suitable remedy for dangerous faults.
He was the more impressed that her beauty was undeniable. The brief glimpse he had had of her had greatly affected him artistically it was an Aesthetic impression entirely. He overdid this." Miss Dickenson nodded slightly in confidence with herself. Her insight jotted down a brief memorandum about Mr. Pellew's, and the credit it did him.
Pellew's next words: "You do forgive me, don't you?" more as assertion than inquiry. She got back breath enough to gasp out: "Oh yes only don't talk! Let me think!" And then presently: "Yes, I forgive you in any case. Only I'll tell you directly. Let's look out of the window. I want to feel the air blow.... You startled me rather, that's all!" Said Mr.
It was a model September afternoon and what can one say more of weather? when at half-past three precisely Mr. Pellew's hansom overshot the door of 102, Cavendish Square, and firmly but amiably insisted on turning round to deposit its fare according to the exact terms of its contract. Its proprietor said what he could in extenuation of its maladroitness.
Soldiers are accustomed to act only in orderly masses; but sailors combine with discipline the energy of individual enterprise. Mr. Pellew's party had acted as pioneers and artificers to the army during its advance; and their knowledge, and readiness at resources, would have given them great facilities in making their way through a hostile country.
Pellew's political feelings differed widely from those of his father-in-law. It was his practice to make his children drink the king's health on their knees every Sunday. He died in 1765, leaving six children, four of them boys, of whom the eldest was at that time eleven years old, and Lord Exmouth, the second, only eight.
Still, it may with fairness be argued that, as the one action from its attendant circumstances evidenced the individual skill of the commander, so the other testified to the antecedent preparation and efficiency of the crew, which are always to be attributed to the care of the captain, especially under the conditions of Pellew's enlistments.
We have found restrictions necessary against the Portuguese and the English. Then followed observations by the Japanese on Pellew's entry into Nagasaki harbor, which showed how much dislike of the English that event had occasioned. A strong proof of their remarkable caution was furnished by the Japanese at the conference held on March 28th when most of the terms of the treaty had been agreed upon.
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