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There was two feet of water in Stateroom 7, where Mrs. Skinner clung to her husband, screaming hysterically. But despite the awful buffeting she was receiving the Quickstep never faltered. On she plowed, riding the green billows like a gull, and shipping a sea only occasionally.
Two minutes later the steward was back with word that the passengers in question were dead-heads, being none other than the manager of the Blue Star Navigation Company and his wife. "Steward, you go back and tell that man Skinner that Captain Peasley never carries any dead-heads on the Quickstep.
Secondly, their subalterns were not mounted on parade, as is the general rule, but walked at the head of their men. A man who can hold his own with the Wuddars at their quickstep must be sound in wind and limb. Fourthly-up to one-hundredthly they were the Wuddars Chinn's Irregular Bhil Levies of the old days, but now, henceforward and for ever, the Wuddars.
She is brought in at daybreak with green boughs and singing, and at noon the citizens dance through the streets in her honour, the Mayor himself leading off as the town band strikes up its immemorial quickstep, the staid burgesses following with their partners.
"When I was before the mast in the Annabel Lee he was her skipper, so when I met him in Pedro minus his ticket and stony broke I gave him a lift to San Francisco. Mr. Ricks informed me that I would be permitted these little courtesies within the bounds of reason." "When Captain Kjellin had the Quickstep," Mr. Skinner answered, "he never carried dead-heads."
Was that man Halvor Jacobsen who is suing us second mate on the Quickstep?" "Yes, sir." "I knew it," Cappy shrilled triumphantly. "Skinner, with all your efficiency ideas, you fail to see anything remarkable in that fact. Now don't tell me you do, because I know you do not.
Miss Penny, also, through much experience with girls, was lighter of foot than she looked. They stood for a time watching, and presently both their feet were tapping to the quickstep of the rest. "Let's have a shot at it," said Charles. "Will you?" and he looked down at her.
"De ladies and genmen will please choose pardners for de minuet," said Brutus. The choosing had been already done; the partners were as they had been. After the minuet came the reel and quickstep, danced with grace and due decorum. The hour quickly flew. The horses had finished their provender and were rested.
And Matt Peasley was off like a tin-canned dog to slick himself up for the party, while Cappy entered the elevator chuckling. "If I ever find the sour-souled philosopher who said you can't mix business and sentiment without resultant chaos," he soliloquized, "I'll boil the kill-joy in oil." The big steam schooner Quickstep was lying at the Los Medanos dock when Matt Peasley reported for duty.
Trumpets call to arms, and with the mustering battalions the music marks the quickstep, as the shepherd patriots march to meet the Austrian chivalry. A brilliant use of the violins and reeds depicts the exultation of the victors on their return, and closes one of the grandest sound-paintings in music.
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