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For this reason I merely asked him whether he had traveled much in foreign lands, as a sailor. Then, as he puffed quietly at his pipe, the man gradually expanded just a little, though never speaking of anything he had personally accomplished. His tales, contrasting with Sammy's, took us to hot countries, with names that were rather vague to us.
Sammy's accounts were in a more cheerful key, and his principles were not affected by his success. He never had believed that there was any good in finding the pole, and he did not believe it now.
Quinbey wrote to Andover, and in a few days received a reply, which he read to his wife. It was a true account of Sammy's mishap in Boston; and, while Quinbey grinned he could not smile the mother wept silently, but asked no forgiveness for her wayward son.
I'll show you how I earned that money. Up wi' you, 'fore I give you a rope's end." And sometimes, in the lulls, they could hear Sammy's shrieks of pain, and the thwack of the rope's end. "I tell ye I saw it wi' these eyes I saw it!" "You think you seen it." "Now I quit. Ye talk like every mate or skipper or Consul I've told this to.
Miles indicated her eldest son, an uncouth-looking lad of about twelve years of age. "Nor Sammy neither," said the farmer, laying his hand on Sammy's broad shoulder, and bringing the red-haired and freckled boy forward. "I am just delighted to see you, Ben; and to see you, Sammy. And these are my sisters. And, please, Mrs. Miles, where are the twins?"
If I objected to relinquishing the tiller owing to a preference for running up on the rocks I was entirely welcome, as far as I could judge from Sammy's words. I am beginning to love the old man. He took the helm and I swung my arms against my sides, for my muscles felt just a little bit sore. "I'd like to do this often," I informed him. "It is fine for one's arms."
Bates had fallen down stairs by means of one of Master Sammy's round pebbles, and lamed herself, so that she was no longer able to trudge about with her basket, and where she had applied for sewing, they told her there were more applicants than work, and so she did not know what to do. "To-morrow's rent-day, Nannie," said she with a sigh, "and I have but a dollar put by toward the twelve.
The vast ice-pans had revealed their secrets to him and the North Atlantic gales had become the breath of his nostrils. I can remember a time when I had an idea that I could handle a boat fairly well, but now I was compelled to recognize my limitations, while I really enjoyed the exhibition of Sammy's skill.
Then, on a lonely beat, one autumn day to the north side of Trusham, there came, like a bolt from the blue, the great event of Sammy's life, not only from a professional standpoint, but also an affair that led to far higher things in the shape of a female.
Finally Cornelia caught sight of a bit of paper stuck upon the high mantel. She tore it down, and the two read slowly and laboriously together the few lines written in Sammy's hand: "I ain't going to allow my wife to live off any man's charity. I ain't going to be made to look like nothing in the eyes of people any longer. I've taken my wife to my own place, where I can support her myself.
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