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No more was said between us, and by next morning she seemed to have clean forgotten the affair. But I thought of it at times, and it puzzled me. "Now, as I said, my master had taken a fancy to me quite apart from the bombardon, and a token of it was his constantly taking me out as companion on his walks.
A loud cough, the twinkling of Mr Wilkins' spectacles, and a peculiar clearing of the voice, which made Sergeant Brumpton, who had been hard at work making ominous sounds on the bombardon, turn his head and smile at Dick then standing in his place waiting to begin and making him lower his head to examine the music; for, if he had smiled there, just in front of the bandmaster, it must have been seen, and taken as an insult.
She seemed to me to walk nervously, as if brought up for punishment; and a thought took me and I shall be glad of it when I come to die that if they meant to ill-use her I might do worse than assault that venerable pair with my bombardon and end my adventures with credit. "My eyes were so taken up with the girl that for a full minute I paid no attention to my master.
He smiled at every mistake, but never lost his patience; indeed it was clear that my quickness delighted him, and I did my best, wondering all the while what he meant to do with me. "Well, to be short, sir, he intended to keep me. I believe he would have done it for the sake of the cornet; but before I had finished eating, up stepped a sentry escorting a man with my bombardon under his arm.
"He said that I was a fat, idiotic porpoise; and that did it." "Did what?" cried Jerry. "I'd got that big bombardon upside down in my hands, and, before I knew it, I'd brought it down on his bald head, just as if it was an extinguisher." "And put him out!" said Jerry. "Well, he put me out then, anyhow." "And what did he say, then." "Oh, he didn't say any more," replied Brumpton.
"While I sat keeping guard on him I must have dropped asleep myself; for the next I remember was waking up to find the beach deserted and the boat gone. O'Hara wouldn't wake, so I just lifted him on board like a sack, tossed in his cornet and my bombardon, tumbled in on top of them, and started to row for dear life towards the ship's light in the offing.
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