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But then you have plenty of time to read on board-ship, and this account may amuse you. Make haste and thank me for it. "Your old friend, Amuse him! How could he be amused by so great an insult? What! thank her for giving him over even in thought to Giselle or to anybody? Oh, how wicked, how ungrateful, how unworthy! The six pages of foreign-post paper were crumpled up by his angry fingers.
As he could play bridge without letting down his partners, was active at deck sports, and invariably cheery and obliging, he soon gained that effervescent prize, "board-ship popularity." Here was a different fellow from Douglas Shafto of "Malahide."
But then you have plenty of time to read on board-ship, and this account may amuse you. Make haste and thank me for it. "Your old friend, Amuse him! How could he be amused by so great an insult? What! thank her for giving him over even in thought to Giselle or to anybody? Oh, how wicked, how ungrateful, how unworthy! The six pages of foreign-post paper were crumpled up by his angry fingers.
It was a pleasant relief from the stereotyped "board-ship" saying, that all native Christians are rascals, to hear the following from one of the engineers of the great irrigation system of the Panjab. In the course of ordinary conversation he happened to say that, in all his experiences, he had only met with one really honest native, and that he was a Christian.
My little Chrysantheme for the first time visited me on board-ship to day, chaperoned by Madame Prune, and followed by my youngest sister in-law, Mademoiselle La Neige. These ladies had the tranquil manners of the highest gentility.
It is possible that to you my life and death affair is a mere matter of board-ship amusement. Yet it is possible also that you might take another view of the matter. In that case, as a friend and a man of the world, I entreat you don't. Have nothing to do with me. Send me about my business; you will never regret it." "Are you making fun, or is all this meant, Mr.
This allusion to the `Jaunty' silenced the incorrigible Larrikins for the nonce; though he sniggered at Mick saying `downstairs' instead of below, as most landsmen do when new to board-ship life. The next moment, however, Master Larrikins was at it again, trying to `take a rise out of me, Mick having thus discouraged his advances in that direction.
Accordingly his own took on an unconscious softness, a phenomenally unwonted softness. "Don't be foolish, child. You know I was doing nothing of the sort. Go on with what you were saying at once." "What was I saying? Oh, I remember. That idea that board-ship life shows people in their real character. Do you believe in it?" "Only in the case of those who have no real character to show.
SCENE IV. I have already remarked how happily Wagner has contrived to hit off the character of the board-ship life. Kurwenal enters and roughly orders the "women" to get themselves ready to land. Isolde is to prepare herself at once to appear before King Marke escorted by Tristan.
My little Chrysantheme for the first time visited me on board-ship to day, chaperoned by Madame Prune, and followed by my youngest sister in-law, Mademoiselle La Neige. These ladies had the tranquil manners of the highest gentility.
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