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Terry looked away; Jericho vanished below, with vague plans about a great supper. Biler gazed upon Louisbourg with a pensive eye and a half-eaten turnip. "I knowed you'd be back, little un," said Zac; "I felt it; an', now you've come, don't go away agin." "O, but I haf to go to ze comtesse," said Margot; "zat ees to-day " "Go back to the countess!
"I don't think nothing about it," grunted the skipper; "you do your work, and I'll do mine." "Don't you give me none of your back answers," bellowed the engineer, "'cos I won't have 'em." The skipper shrugged his shoulders and exchanged glances with his sympathetic mate. "Wait till I get 'im ashore," he murmured. "The biler is wore out," said the engineer, re-appearing after a hasty dive below.
'I suppose, said Mr Toodle, relishing his meal infinitely, 'as our Biler is a doin' now about as well as a boy can do, eh, Polly? 'Oh! he's a doing beautiful! responded Polly. 'He ain't got to be at all secret-like has he, Polly? inquired Mr Toodle. 'No! said Mrs Toodle, plumply.
In spite of the double disappointment, it was impossible to regard in the light of a failure a visit which was greeted with such a reception; so the sisters talked hopefully about family matters, and about Biler, and about all his brothers and sisters: while the black-eyed, having performed several journeys to Banbury Cross and back, took sharp note of the furniture, the Dutch clock, the cupboard, the castle on the mantel-piece with red and green windows in it, susceptible of illumination by a candle-end within; and the pair of small black velvet kittens, each with a lady's reticule in its mouth; regarded by the Staggs's Gardeners as prodigies of imitative art.
'If the biler of this vessel was Toe bust, sir, said his new acquaintance, 'and Toe bust now, this would be a festival day in the calendar of despotism; pretty nigh equallin', sir, in its effects upon the human race, our Fourth of glorious July. Yes, sir, that is the Honourable Elijah Pogram, Member of Congress; one of the master-minds of our country, sir. There is a brow, sir, there!
'Polly, my gal, said Mr Toodle, with a young Toodle on each knee, and two more making tea for him, and plenty more scattered about Mr Toodle was never out of children, but always kept a good supply on hand 'you ain't seen our Biler lately, have you? 'No, replied Polly, 'but he's almost certain to look in tonight. It's his right evening, and he's very regular.
At this Jericho put on his nose an enormous pair of spectacles, and thus equipped climbed upon deck, followed closely by the melancholy Biler, who devoured a carrot as he went up. By this time Zac had brought the Parson's head round once more, and steered for the raft, calling out to Terry to get the boat afloat.
Terry did the same; so did Jericho. Biler had none to remove, but he raised his potato in the air. Zac led off "Hip, hip, hip, h-o-o-o-r-a-a-a-y!" "Arrah, captain, darlint, an' while yo's about it, sure ye won't be forgettin' ould Ireland," cried Terry, as the ringing cheers died away over the waters. "Certingly," said Zac. "Course. Here goes!"
Biler whimpered, would he though? oh no he wouldn't and what was he doing of and why didn't he strangle some body of his own size and not him: but Biler was quelled by the extraordinary nature of his reception, and, as his head became stationary, and he looked the gentleman in the face, or rather in the teeth, and saw him snarling at him, he so far forgot his manhood as to cry.
"Shure, an' it's yer honor knows me well enough; and her ladyship too; may the heavens be her bed. And don't I come from Clady; that is two long miles the fur side of it? And my name is Bridget Sheehy. Shure, an' yer ladyship remembers me at Clady the first day ye war over there about the biler." Clara looked at her, and thought that she did remember her, but she said nothing.
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