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"How, now, brother!" exclaimed Boltrope, with a smile of grim fierceness; "some of that grist has gone to your mill, ha!" No answer could, however, be given before the yielding forms of both fell to the deck, where they lay helpless, amid the din of the battle and the wild confusion of the eager combatants.
Boltrope!" he cried, "here are boats coming alongside with ladies in them, and you keep your gaft swayed up till the leach of the sail is stretched like a fiddle-string settle away your peak- halyards, sir, settle away!" "Ay, ay, sir," grumbled the master; "settle away that peak there; though the craft wouldn't forge ahead a knot in a month, with all her jibs hauled over!"
"Ay, ay," was thrown back from a clear voice, that swept across the water with a fullness that needed no factitious aid to render it audible. "Ay, there comes one of the lieutenants, with his ay, ay," said Boltrope "pipe the side, there, you boatswain's mate! But here's another fellow more on our quarter! Boat ahoy!" "Alacrity" returned another voice, in a direction different from the other.
Ben Boltrope was commissioned to manufacture as speedily as he could, out of what spare timber he could get hold of and, if necessary, he was empowered to break up the longboat in default of finding any elsewhere, for they would not want to use it again a small light carriage with large broad wheels similar to those commonly used in transporting life- boats from place to place along the coast, when their services are suddenly required at some spot remote from their station and it would take too long to send them round by sea.
Ben Boltrope who had been having a confab with the darkey, and probably a "drop of something hot," his special failing, in the galley when the sea washed over the ship and fetched it away was promptly at hand to help his sable friend; when the galley was reinstated in its proper place, and so tightly lashed down to the ring-bolts that a sea would have had to carry away the deck itself to have lifted it again.
"I heard you were hurt, Boltrope," said Griffith, taking him kindly by the hand; "but as I know you are not unused to being marked by shot, I trust we shall soon see you again on deck." "Ay, ay," returned the master, "you'll want no spy glasses to see the old hulk as you launch it into the sea.
Boltrope, you mistook me and my doctrine altogether!" exclaimed the chaplain; "at least you mistook " "Perhaps, sir," interrupted Griffith, gently, "our honest friend will not be more fortunate now. Is there nothing earthly that hangs upon your mind, Boltrope? no wish to be remembered to any one, nor any bequest to make of your property?"
Karl Ericksen, called down from the maintop where his range of view had become limited through the increasing darkness and snowstorm, was placed between the knight-heads; a man on each bow; Frank Harness on the fore scuttle; Mr McCarthy and Adams on the port and starboard quarters; and Ben Boltrope at the wheel Captain Dinks being here, there, and everywhere to see that everybody was on the qui vive, even ascending the mizzen rigging sometimes into the top, to have an outlook from there and try whether his eyes could pierce the misty vapour that hung over the sea by dint of looking down into it.
Ben Boltrope, too, returning from forward after a survey of the damage, in accordance with the captain's command, reported another piece of good news.
As the Frenchman lifted his legs and arms, at each jerk of Briggs's, I could not help participating in the general mirth. "You young devil, what are you doing?" said a stifled voice behind me. I looked up and beheld Captain Boltrope, endeavoring to calm his stern features, but the twitching around his mouth betrayed his intense enjoyment of the scene.
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