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What irritated most of all was his assuming, because I had not arrived at his folly, the right to treat me as a child. South and across the Bay of Biscay the weather gave us a halcyon passage; the wind falling lighter and lighter until, within ten leagues of Gibraltar, we ran into a flat calm, and Captain Pomery's face began to show his vexation.
And it can't be so strong as I reckoned, for when she spoke the word 'marriage' you might ha' knocked me down with a straw." "Eh?" put in Mr. Fett, "was she the first to mention it?" "Me bein' a trifle absent-minded, maybe, on that point," explained Billy. His gaze happening to wander to the wheel, encountered Captain Jo Pomery's; and Captain Jo, who had been listening, nodded encouragement.
If you envy Hosken his inside after two miles o' that, you must be like Pomery's pig in love with pain. They've hired or borrowed the Preventive boat, I'm told; and it's the best they could do. She's new, and she looks pretty. She'll drag aft if they put their light weights in the bows: still, she's a good boat. I'm not afeared of her, though.
But happily Captain Pomery's defiance was thrown away. A minute later the leading gunboat ran up a small bundle on her main signal halliards, and shook out the green flag of Corsica. "You can let the gun lie," said I to my monks. "These are friends." "They are my countrymen," said the Princess at my elbow. "That they are friends is less certain."
Only as I led my guests up the steps he set down his work and, raising a hand, bent to them in a very courteous welcome. "Good morning, lad! And good morning to those you bring, whencesoever they come." "They come, sir," I answered "in Jo Pomery's ketch Gauntlet, I believe from Italy; and with a message for you." "My father turned his gaze from me to the spokesman at my elbow.
"I don't know how much of it'll ever arrive at this rate," confessed the seaman, dropping the handful of flints and scratching his head. "Tis buying speed at a terrible cost of jettison. But Cap'n Pomery's last order to me was to make haste about it, if we're to catch to-morrow's tide." "Captain Pomery sent you for these stones?"
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