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What was his astonishment, when the cooper's foreman, riding up and addressing him with respect, told him: "His master was very sorry he was absent when he came to his dwelling, and grieved that he could not tarry the christening dinner; and that he had taen the freedom to send a sma' runlet of sack, and ane anker of brandy, as he understood there were guests at the castle, and that they were short of preparation."
Through that of Angus's room, he caught sight of a floating anker cask. It was the very thing! and there on the walls hung a quantity of nets and cordage! But how to get in? It was a sash-window, and of course swollen with the wet, therefore not to be opened; and there was not a square in it large enough to let him through.
Nombre de Dios, when I was a powder-boy in the old ship Lion, the day that we engaged the Spiritus Sanctus of two tier o' guns the first time that ever I heard the screech of ball my heart never thumped as it does now. What say ye if we run back with a fair wind and broach that anker of Nants?
One evening it was nearly time to knock off there was a thundering knock on the workshop door, and the sound of some one humming a march drifted in from the entry. "Can you not open?" cried a solemn voice: "the Prince is here!" "Pelle, open the door quick!" said the master. Pelle flung the door wide open, and Anker marched in.
The pitiful thing about Anker was that he was such a good craftsman. He had inherited the watchmaker's trade from his father and grandfather, and his Bornholm striking-clocks were known all over the world; orders came to him from Funen as well as from the capital. But when the Constitution was granted he behaved like a child as though people had not always been free on Bornholm!
But all things in their own time and place. To understand the due weight and bearing of this feeling of optimism, it is necessary to remember that its happy owner had probably spent her youth in that golden age when it was deemed churlish to bottle the claret, and each guest filled his stoup at the fountain of the flowing hogshead; and if the darker days of dear claret came upon her times, there was still to fall back upon the silver age of smuggled usquebaugh, when the types of a really hospitable country-house were an anker of whisky always on the spigot, a caldron ever on the bubble with boiling water, and a cask of sugar with a spade in it, all for the manufacture of toddy.
"What, are you giving yourself airs?" he cried, and therewith he attacked the lunatic, who timidly set about resisting him. Then another sailor ran up and struck Anker behind the knees, so that he fell. He lay on the ground shouting and kicking with fright, and the whole party flung itself upon him. The boys scattered in all directions, in order to gather stones and come to Anker's assistance.
The sun had passed the trees that round the Tolbooth walls and a beam from his majesty came boldly into the den by the companion. It struck a slanting passage on the floor and revealed the figure of a girl at her ease dangling her feet upon a water anker with her hair a flood of spate-brown fallen back upon its fastening band.
The 13. we entered into a small Bay, but because wee founde no good anker ground, as also being very foule we sayled out againe.
He always looked ready to fall upon Bjerregrav tooth and nail if the conversation turned on Anker's misfortune. "Dampe!" said Jeppe scornfully, "he has turned both your heads!" "That's a lie!" stammered Bjerregrav. "Anker went wrong later than that after King Frederick granted us liberty. And it's only that I'm not very capable; I have my wits, thank God!"
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