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Best's conduct, and of dialogues in which Mrs. Best had decidedly the inferiority as an interlocutor with Mrs. Pomfret, that Hetty required no more presence of mind than was demanded for using her needle, and throwing in an occasional "yes" or "no."
Peeping and prying into greenroom gossip of the day, the poet's drinking, the poet's debts. We have King Lear: and it is immortal. Mr Best's face, appealed to, agreed. Flow over them with your waves and with your waters, Mananaan, Mananaan MacLir... How now, sirrah, that pound he lent you when you were hungry? Marry, I wanted it. Take thou this noble. Go to!
There was another bond, for Mrs. Best's daughter was, "as distances go," a neighbour to Carrigaboola, and resorted thither on great occasions. Angela's vision began to be, to take Magdalen and her sisters out to Carrigaboola, where a superior school for colonists' daughters was much needed, and where Paula might enter the Sisterhood.
Best's anger disappeared as if by magic; his tone became apologetic. "Oh! Why didn't you say so? If he'll pay enough, and if you want him, why, of course " Laure interrupted with an unexpected dash of temper. "He isn't going to pay you anything: you're going to pay him top wages, too. Understand?" The unhappy recipient of this ultimatum raised his hands in a gesture of despair. "Himmel!
Best's boats were unloaded, his men had been paid off, and now his troupe had scattered, seeking lodgings. As in a dream Pierce Phillips joined the drifting current of humanity that flowed through the long front streets and eddied about the entrances of amusement places. He asked himself if he were indeed awake, if, after all, this was his Ultima Thule?
That a time might arrive when Raymond would see with him seemed exceedingly improbable; yet he felt the dim possibility by occasional flashes in the young man, and it was a quality of Mr. Best's mind to be hopeful and credit other men with his own aspirations, if any excuse existed for so doing.
Best's song-birds were noisily twittering about Pierce; Best himself was congratulating the young man upon his ability to swim, when Laure spoke, sharply, imperiously: "Somebody find his dry things, quickly. And you, Morris, get your whisky." While one of the men ran for Pierce's duffle-bag, Best came hurrying with a bottle which he proffered to Pierce.
In the opening lines the poet thus calls on the Skipperii, or Skippers: 'Linquite skellatas botas, shippasque picatas, Whistlantesque simul fechtam memorate blodeam, Fechtam terribilem, quam marvellaverat omnis Banda Deûm, quoque Nympharum Cockelshelearum. In Best's Memorials, p. 63, is given another of these lines that Mr.
The Hydaspes which something he had heard during the speculations as to this missing cousin flashed across him. "Back water, men! Round with her! Pull for your lives!" Best's boat glided alongside. "Can you see her name?" Frere, white with terror, shouted a reply. "The Hydaspes! I know her. She is bound for Calcutta, and she has five tons of powder aboard!" There was no need for more words.
Further details of this voyage may be gathered from the log of Christopher Hall, master of the Gabriel, printed in Hakluyt. The present narrative, prefixed to Best's accounts of the second and third voyages, was preceded by a treatise intended to prove all parts of the earth, even the poles, equally habitable.
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