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It was plain to me that the pair of them, spineless and spunkless, were afraid of the men they were supposed to boss. And the men! Dore could never have conjured a more delectable hell's broth. For the first time I saw them all, and I could not blame the two bosuns for being afraid of them. They did not walk. They slouched and shambled, some even tottered, as from weakness or drink.
Nor are our three Horn Gypsies, the storm-visitors with the dreaming, topaz eyes, spunkless. Held in superstitious abhorrence by the rest of the crew, aliens by lack of any word of common speech, nevertheless they are good sailors and are always first to spring into any enterprise of work or peril. They have gone into Mr. Mellaire's watch, and they are quite apart from the rest of the sailors.
Arabella was too spunkless to applaud; Patricia was too jealous. Arabella, after her own dull fashion, had enjoyed the music. Patricia surely had not. Patricia never could bear to see or hear any one do anything! "Let's go up to our room," she whispered. "P'rhaps some of the others will play or sing," ventured Arabella, who wished to remain. "Let 'em!"
She's spunkless." But they were mistaken. Among themselves they spoke of her as "Little Patience." Once Betty Chase told her that she knew a girl whose name was "Patience," who was always called "Patty." "My family does not like nicknames," was the reply in a low voice, as she turned away.
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