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I am afraid that I have not the pleasure of knowing your names, and must request the honour of being introduced." Lieutenant Winterbottom bowed. "I've had the pleasure of reading Lieutenant Winterbottom's name several times this forenoon," observed Captain Oughton, as he returned the salute. "You refer to my luggage, I'm afraid, Captain Oughton?"
I am afraid that I have not the pleasure of knowing your names, and must request the honour of being introduced." Lieutenant Winterbottom bowed. "I've had the pleasure of reading Lieutenant Winterbottom's name several times this forenoon," observed Captain Oughton, as he returned the salute. "You refer to my luggage, I'm afraid, Captain Oughton."
"Captain Majoribanks, whom I ought to apologise to for not having introduced first." "Not at all, major: you just heard the brevet rank which Winterbottom's baggage has procured him." "Not the first time a man has obtained rank through his `baggage," observed one of the officers, sotto voce. "Mr Ansell, Mr Petres, Mr Irving."
Winterbottom's publication to the reader, as, embracing highly important local information upon the diseases of the Windward Coast. I have only touched on those which have more immediately come within my personal observation.
But he rose, just as the book told him to do, in all his beauty, and enunciated in the crystal tones he had learned during the last few weeks at Madam Winterbottom's school of acting and elocution in syllables chiseled from the stone of eloquence by the lapidary of culture: "If Your Honor please, I move the cause of the People of the state of New York against Theophilus Higgleby, indicted for bigamy."
Every vestige of the composure so laboriously acquired at Madam Winterbottom's salon had evaporated. He felt as if he were swinging in midair hitched to a scudding aeroplane by a rope about his middle. The mucous membranes of his throat were as dry and as full of dust as the entrails of a carpet sweeper. His vision was blurred and he had no control over his muscles.
The murder was out. Mr Winterbottom groaned, rose from his seat, for he felt very sick indeed. The misfortunes of individuals generally add to the general quota of mirth, and Mr Winterbottom's misfortune had the same effect as that of Mr Quince. But where was poor Mr Quince all this time?
Major Clavering, who had waited during this dialogue, continued "Captain Majoribanks, whom I ought to apologise to for not having introduced first " "Not at all, major; you just heard the brevet rank which Winterbottom's baggage has procured him." "Not the first time a man has obtained rank through his 'baggage," observed one of the officers, sotto voce. "Mr Ansell, Mr Petres, Mr Irving."
Indeed, the sight of Winterbottom's distress did more to soothe Mr Quince's pain than all the Thames water in the world. He rose, and leaving Winterbottom, with his two hands to his head, leaning against a tree, joined the party, and pledged the ladies in succession, till he was more than half tipsy.
The editor has been favoured by Mr. Macaulay, late Secretary of the Sierra Leone Company and formerly Governor of the Colony, with a sight of the Journals of the expedition to Teembo as well as of some other missions from Sierra Leone of inferior importance. Winterbottom's judicious account of the native Africans in the neighbourhood of that colony.
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