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As Jack gave such a liberal order, and the vice-consul cheated him out of at least one-third of what he paid, Mr Hicks thought he could do no less than offer beds to our midshipmen as well as to Captain Hogg; so, as soon as dinner was over, they ordered Captain Hogg to go on board and bring their things on shore, which he did.
"Mr Easy," said the flag-captain, who had been looking at the transport with his glass, "is that the master's wife on board?" "No, sir," replied Jack; "it's the vice-consul." "What, in petticoats! the vice-consul?" "Yes, the vice-consul of Tetuan.
Orson as if to verify the impression of this extreme opinion upon him; he looked as if he neither accepted nor rejected it, and she concluded the sentence which the vice-consul had interrupted. "Because I ratha not keep it, if there isn't enough without it." The vice-consul gave way to violence. "It's none of your business whether there's enough or not.
There were here, in addition to Thompson, Edwin Weigel, a Chicago photographer; Edward Eyre Hunt, of "Collier's Weekly"; and the Dutch Vice-Consul. We heard the distant resounding Boom ... Boom ... Boom ... ed ... Boom ... Boom ... Boom.
And it took me ever so long to talk him round. Having settled Russia and got rid of him, in came Mr. Summa, our Vice-Consul, also deeply troubled. The Vali had asked him for an explanation of the policy of Great Britain. He, too, was of opinion that the Foreign Office could not have concocted such a plan as a visit to the bazar, except for some deep and obscure purpose.
It is a brandy-drinking place. No one would bear anything of our business. A rich old lady has a large room which she lets for all kinds of purposes except for anything connected with religion; she gave an abrupt refusal to the application. E. Dahl and I went to the English vice-consul, showed him my certificate, and explained to him the object of my visit to Fahrsund.
The gentleman, who was an unsalaried vice-consul, appalled at the number of interrogatories, immediately replied, "That he had his own business to attend to; he could not sit down to compose consular returns, which would require weeks of labour; and if it were considered part of his duties to answer such questions, he begged to resign at once his vice-consulship."
I was still in Ghent when the Germans moved up to the suburbs. "I can put my artillery on Ghent," said the German officer to the American vice-consul. That talk is typical of the tone of voice used to Belgians: threat backed by murder. The whole policy of the Germans of late is to treat the Belgian matter as a thing accomplished. "It is over. Let bygones be bygones."
Had he been in the navy, his warning would have received attention, but as he was a humble civilian he had, so to speak, no business to know anything about such matters. "Well," he said, "you can make inquiries and see if my conclusions are right." The Vice-Consul smiled. "That is not so.
Watkins thinks we should give the vice-consul a box of cigars. "Let's see; ten pounds and a box of cigars, that's three hundred lire at the price of exchange. You had the picture just three weeks, a hundred lire a week for the use of all that education in art, all that spiritual influence. Quite cheap, I should say." "And Mr. Watkins's services, Maud!" my wife asked, viciously.
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