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It was Rodney's lot to break with this tradition, and to be the first to illustrate juster ideas in a fairly ranged battle, where the enemy awaited attack, as he had done at Malaga in 1704, and at Minorca in 1756.
For this every man concerned must have been trained to think in the same plane; the chief's order must awake in every brain the same process of thought; his words must have the same meaning for all. If a theory of tactics had existed in 1780, and if Captain Carkett had had a sound training in such a theory, he could not possibly have misunderstood Rodney's signal.
It was Miss Rodney's fancy to receive his advances with disdain. She assumed a most unfriendly manner. "Indeed?" with chilling irony. "And why, may I ask?" Freddie was taken aback. This was most unexpected. "Practice makes perfect," he said glibly. "Don't you want me to carry 'em, Kitty?" He said it almost tearfully. Katherine exulted inwardly. Outwardly she was very cool and very baffling.
She was going through a passing phase of that same melancholy acquiescence in the decrees of Fate, which had been Olga Larson's permanent characteristic until Rose's own fire and a turn in the tide of fortune had roused her. One little sequence of events springing directly from Rodney's visit to Dubuque, contributed largely to this result. The principal actor in it was Dolly.
I could not hear their words, but I noticed Rodney's expression as he leaned forward. Jeannette was paddling slowly; her cheeks were flushed, and her eyes brilliant. Another moment and a point hid them from my view. I went home troubled. 'Did you enjoy the picnic, Miss Augusta? I said with assumed carelessness, that evening. 'Dr. Prescott was there, as usual, I suppose?
It is rather large and heavy for your pocket and you have no belt; so you will have to shove it into your boot leg. That's as handy a place to carry it as any I know of." When both parties are willing to trade it does not take them long to come to an understanding, and in a very short time some of Rodney's gold went into Mr. Westall's pocket, and the revolver into the leg of the boy's boot.
He took the paper and put a quarter into Rodney's hand. As he was walking away Rodney called out, "Stop, here's your change," "Never mind," said Philip with a wave of the hand. "Thank you," said Rodney gratefully, for twenty five cents was no trifle to him at this time. "That ought to bring me luck," soliloquized Philip Carton as he walked on. "It isn't often I do a good deed.
All these effects of "breaking the line" received illustration in Rodney's great battle in 1782. De Guichen and Rodney met twice again in the following month, but on neither occasion did the French admiral take the favorite lee-gage of his nation. Meanwhile a Spanish fleet of twelve ships-of-the-line was on its way to join the French.
But there was one thing about it: Tom might be a Union soldier, but he was neither an abolitionist nor a horse-thief. "It is Percival, sure enough, but what in the name of sense and Tom Walker is he doing here?" was the next question that came into Rodney's mind. His first impulse was to seize his old schoolmate by the hand, proclaim his friendship for him and assure Mr.
Sandwich, however, had entertained the project, and in October, 1779, just as Rodney's appointment issued, a vessel sailed from England with letters to Admiral Arbuthnot in New York, directing him to send several ships-of-the-line to the West Indies for the winter campaign.
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