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The moon will have taken off to about her third quarter by then; but even so she will give us light enough to find our way out through the reef, which is all that we need trouble about." "Precisely," I agreed. "Then am I to understand that you and Miss Hartley definitely agree to throw in your lot with me in this desperate attempt?" "Yes, Mr Troubridge, you certainly may," answered Gurney.
It's a stiff job, Mr Troubridge, for two people for the young lady won't count nothin' to speak of to work a ship the size of the Mercury, and you'd find me most uncommon useful, I assure ye, sir. I'm an A.B., and knows my business as well as e'er a man " "Yes," I agreed, "that is perfectly true, Saunders, for I have noticed you more often than perhaps you think.
"And if I should choose to refuse, I suppose you would stand by and see me drowned, if indeed you did not lend a hand to lash me up?" I asked, infusing all the sarcasm I could into the question. "No, no, Mr Troubridge!" exclaimed Polson, justly indignant that I should bring such a monstrous charge against him.
It was not till this afternoon I was relieved from the most acute anxiety I have ever suffered, by the Leander joining me, with the very satisfactory account that Sir H. Nelson, while we were in chase, fell in with the expected ships under Captain Troubridge, and which occasioned our separation.
Besides, although you sailors may be inclined to listen to reason, you must remember that you cannot answer for Wilde and the rest of the emigrants " "Oh, but I think we can, Mr Troubridge!" interrupted the boatswain. "Ye see, sir, it's this way," he continued. "We sailormen are the masters of the sittyation, as the sayin' is.
By the time that I had cast off the fore topsail halyards, Gurney and Saunders, alarmed by my cry, were out on deck, while in the doorway of the cabin stood Grace Hartley with a wrap of some sort thrown over her shoulders. "What is it, Mr Troubridge what, in the name of all that is terrible, is happening?" demanded Gurney, gazing about him in amazement. "Man the reef tackles, for your lives!"
Vincent and Troubridge afforded easy opportunity; and an express quickly arrived, ordering the fleet to sea at once. "The signal is made to prepare to unmoor at twelve o'clock," wrote Nelson to Troubridge on the 11th.
What could he very well say, if a man chose to throw away his chances, especially when that man was a subordinate who a short time before had flatly refused to obey his orders. Soreness and testiness had full swing in Nelson at this time; at some fancied neglect, he wrote Troubridge a letter which reduced that gallant officer to tears.
The head of one was sent off one morning to Troubridge, with his basket of grapes for breakfast; and a note from the Italian who had, what he called, the glory of presenting it, saying, he had killed the man as he was running away, and begging his excellency to accept the head, and consider it as a proof of the writer's attachment to the crown.
Troubridge and Ball were both directed to send or bring all their ships-of-the-line, save one each, to Minorca, there to unite with Duckworth. Troubridge's ships were to call off Palermo for further instructions, but not to lose time by coming to anchor there.
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