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"His winnings are there upon the table." "Don't believe it," cried the baron. "All these scoundrels have secret pockets in which they stow away their plunder. Search him by all means." "That's it search him!" Crushed by this unexpected, undeserved and incomprehensible misfortune, Pascal had almost yielded to his fate. But the shameful cry: "Search him!" kindled terrible wrath in his brain.
"`I'll walk that plank, if I must, says he; `but I hope I'm too honest to turn my hand to your pirating, says he. "`Ah right, says the Yankee; `just as you please; there's no compulsion; only if you're so confounded honest, says he, `you'll have to leave this here ship, says he, `for we can't afford the room to stow away sich a bulky article as honesty.
Crews deserted their ships, leaving them unable to go to sea again for lack of men, and in consequence a hundred of them were used as storehouses, hotels, and hospitals, or else rotted at their moorings. Sailors by hundreds jumped from the forecastle without waiting to stow the sails or receive their wages.
After inquiring the quarter of the wind, and how she headed, what sail she was carrying, and the probable distance from the cape, he gave orders to call all hands to take in the topgallant-sails, double reef the fore, and single reef the maintop-sails, and stow the flying-jib dressed himself, and came on deck.
You will see him with a large stomach almost trailing on the ground: and no wonder; he needs plenty of room in which to stow away all the canes, reeds, and water-plants from the bottoms of rivers, which are not very nutritious food.
If you and Mr Crumb've come out to Sheep's Acre farm for a bit of supper 'Which we ain't, said John Crumb very loudly; 'nor yet for beer; not by no means. 'We've come for the smiles of beauty, said Joe Mixet. Ruby chucked up her head. 'Mr Mixet, if you'll be so good as to stow that! There ain't no beauty here as I knows of, and if there was it isn't nothing to you.
Pull the box up, Anerley. Come on, Mortimer, stow that notebook! The fork is mightier than the pen just at present. What's the matter with you, Anerley?" "I was wondering whether what we have just seen was worth a telegram." "Well, it's for the proprietors to say if it's worth it. Sordid money considerations are not for us.
We talked away at them, and they talked to us for some time, making all sorts of signs and gestures; but at the end of it all we were not much the wiser, for neither of us could understand a word each other said. However, we did not want them clustering round us while we were unpacking our sledges, and we were in a hurry to stow our things away before night; so Terence undertook to draw them off.
Oliver, with Le Duc and Tom, hurried on ahead to look for some place where they might have a chance of effectually concealing themselves. In a short time Oliver came back. "We have discovered just the sort of place we want," he said. "The sooner we can stow ourselves away in it the better. Let me take your place and help Peek along." Rayner would not allow this.
'Oh, he's hurt! shrieked Anthea; and Cyril, in a savage undertone, bade her 'Stow it! 'You trust to me, he whispered. 'Look here, he went on, 'he's awfully tiresome with people he doesn't know very well. Suppose we stay here a bit till he gets used to you, and then when it's bedtime I give you my word of honour we'll go away and let you keep him if you want to.
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