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And where would you be from, and what would you be wanting here?" he asks, grown civil as a bagman with a bit of ribbon to sell. "Shipmate," says I, "if I'm one of the right sort, my port's Southampton and my flag's the ensign. Take me down to Mme. Czerny, whom I see among the flower-beds yonder, and you shall know enough about me in five minutes to bring the tears to your beautiful eyes.
Then she thought of Miss Port's question. Good manners, indeed! "Well," said the perturbed Maria, after having been informed by the captain that his niece was accustomed to move in the best circles, "I don't want to go into the house again, for if I was to meet her, I'm sure I couldn't keep my temper. But I'll say this to you, Captain Asher, that I pity the woman that's her guardeen.
My port's not 'Frisco; I feel it." "Don't you be thinking that sort of thing," said the other, taking his seat in a chair close by. "There's no manner of use forecastin' the weather a month ahead. Now we're in warm latitoods, your glass will rise steady, and you'll be as right and spry as any one of us, before we fetch the Golden Gates."
He smoked it in so fitful a fashion that it repeatedly went out; and his nervousness seemed to be increased each time that he lighted it. Further, his comment upon Mr. Port's discourse which was a more than ordinarily thoughtful and accurate weighing of the relative merits of thin and thick soups obviously were delivered quite at random. At first Mr.
We were just at the port's mouth and could see the towers and buildings of Alexandria rising purple against the sunset, when the report of a gun came booming over the calm golden water; and we heard, with much mortification, that we had no chance of getting pratique that night.
Port's personal misery incident to the alimentary exigencies of railway transportation, their journey from the central region of New York to the seaboard of Rhode Island was accomplished without misadventure. In regard to Narragansett Pier, Miss Lee's opinions, the which she was neither slow in forming nor unduly cautious in expressing, at first were unfavorable.
The Hawk nodded to the port-locks on the left. "That one," he snapped. "We'll have two chances, the Scorpion and the port, but the port's safest; we could never get the whole ship underway and through the lock in time. To prevent pursuit, all we have to do is leave the lock open after us." They hastened along the roof of the wing that ran that way.
I envy you, I really envy you, old boy, the blessing of that sweet young creature's constant companionship." "Umph do you?" was Mr. Port's concise and rather discouraging reply. "Indeed I do" Mr.
Among the recent captures of Marion were two old field-pieces. Returning to Port's Ferry, he threw up a redoubt on the east bank of the Pedee, upon which he mounted them.
It was a relief to Mr. Port's mind, and also to his digestion for Dorothy's grumpiness produced an effect distinctly bilious when the end of July arrived and his own and his charming ward's views once more were brought into harmony by the move to Narragansett Pier.
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