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Happy is Stoobar that he was contented, without breaking his neck at the inspector's step." "He has satisfied his conscience," Carne answered, grimly; "yet it cannot be blameless, to make him run so fast. I am glad we have been saved from killing them. It would have been hard to know what to do next. But he will never trouble us here again."
They will have their wits again, and that very fat Stoobar will be supplied with powder. Hippolyte, it is a very grand joke. Ha! ha! Stoobar is one fine fat ox! "This was all I heard, for they began to move, having had enough sugar and water, I suppose; and they sauntered away to pay their bill at the hatch put up at the doorway.
'But the ox has his horns, and Stoobar has none. For all his great guns there is not one little cup of powder. The villains laughed at this, as a very fine joke, and you may well suppose that I almost boiled over. 'You have then the command of this beast Stoobar? the other fellow asked him, as if I were a jackass. 'How then have you so very well obtained it? 'In a manner the most simple.
"Well, sir," continued Captain Stubbard, "the first thing I heard those Frenchmen say was: 'Stoobar is a stupid beast, like the ox that takes the prize up here, except that he has no claim to good looks, but the contrary wholly the contrary. Mrs. Stubbard, I beg you to preserve your temper; you have heard others say it, and you should now despise such falsehoods.
Stubbard calls it, but breathing to myself a little in my sleep, when I seemed to hear somebody calling me, not properly, but as people do in a dream 'Stoobar Stoobar Stoobar, was the sound in my ears, like my conscience hauling me over the coals in bad English.
And there goes that big Stoobar, blazing with his sordid battery! Arouse thee, old Cheray! The time too late is over. Those lights thrice accursed will display our little boat, and John Bull is rushing with a thousand sails. The Commander is mad. They will have him, and us too. Shall I dance by a rope? It is the only dancing probable for me in England."
Perhaps he was visiting the fat Captain Stoobar. I feel no solicitude concerning him with my angel. She would never look twice at such a savage." But the gallant French Captain missed the mark this time.
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