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Nothing like fresh air, sir. Keep yourself warm, though, and we mustn't have you wet." "Now, captain, don't, pray," cried the invalid. "All right, then, I won't. Look here, then. If it gets too rough, come into my cabin and have a cigar and a chat. You won't mind a little smoke, my dear?" "Oh no, Captain Berriman; not at all." "That's right.
It could not be claimed that John Berriman had ever done any great thing. He was not on record as having ever risen grandly to an occasion; but there may have been something in the fact that an occasion admitting of a grand rising had never presented itself. Before he became Lieutenant-Governor, he had served inoffensively in the State Senate for two terms.
I don't wonder at the doctor." "What about the doctor?" I said curiously, as I too ate as if I had not had anything for a month. "Never you mind. Fill your fists and come along. Eat as we go." We each covered a biscuit with meat and laid another on the top, to form the hardest sandwiches ever made by man, and then hurried into the next cabin, where Captain Berriman was lying on a mattress.
"Why didn't you aim straight, man? why didn't you aim straight?" cried Captain Berriman. "You did not touch him." "I did not try to hit him," replied Mr Frewen, quietly. "Then why did you fire, sir? A loud noise is not likely to frighten such a man as that."
"So much the better. Let Mr Frewen go and attend him. But the man was insolent, wasn't he?" "Very, I believe; and Captain Berriman said he would have proper discipline in his ship." "Yes, of course. I should have liked to see the captain knock him down. Perhaps it will make him spiteful." I looked at him wonderingly, and he smiled. "Well, why shouldn't I?" he said.
"Oh yes," Captain Berriman said, "fish away, sir, and the more fresh fish you catch for us, the better the passengers and crew will like it." I was standing by one morning when this was said, and Miss Denning glanced at me and smiled as if she knew what was coming. "You will let young Dale help me?" said Mr Denning. "Want him?" "Oh yes." "Take him, then.
"I am trying, sir, if only to be prepared to have a witness against you when the time comes for your punishment." "Oh yes, of course, doctor, we know all about that. This way, sir. Now, boy. Come!" "Good-bye, Captain Berriman," I said, as I leaned over my poor officer and pressed his hand. Then in a whisper "Cheer up! Perhaps we shall re-take the ship after all."
No one had ever worked very hard for Senator Berriman's vote. He had been put in by the machine, and it had always been assumed that he was machine property. Berriman himself had never given the matter of his place in the human drama much thought. He had an idea that it was proper for him to vote with his friends, and he always did it.
"Bah!" ejaculated Jarette; and the word sounded like the short, sharp bark of some cur, as it reached us through the barricade. "Goin' to plant it yourself?" said Bob Hampton. "Yes, you brave Englishman," sneered Jarette. "I'm going to show you what your captain can do." "Shoot the scoundrel!" said Captain Berriman, excitedly. "Impossible, without he comes into sight," whispered Mr Denning.
Well, we can keep the Senator's condition pretty quiet here; and after all, he's sturdy, and may live on to the close of the year. After due deliberation Berriman appoints you. A little talk? Yes. But it's worth a little talk. It seems to me the thing works out very smoothly."
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