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Updated: June 4, 2025
Pleasant life it would be for William, with all five coming home with 'The Sea, the Open Sea' in their mouths and all about the house when he gets home from work! Leastways it would be, if he wasn't providentially deaf." "Is the woman deaf, too?" asked 'Bias. "No. She believes in Education," said Mrs Bosenna.
Cai descended to his garden, and at the foot of it found a trio of dark figures by the low fence of the edge of the cliff 'Bias and Mrs Bosenna in talk together, Dinah standing a little apart. "But that," thought he, "is only her place, as I've just been hearing." He had a just mind and was slow to suspect. Even now he could not assimilate the poison of Mr Philp's story.
Captain Cai came within an ace of saying fatuously it was a pity the late Mr Bosenna couldn't be present to partake of this; but checked himself. "To think that you should have met him! Well, it's a small world." "There's a lot of folks attend Summercourt Fair or used to," said Captain Cai, and added that the world was not so noticeably small, if you tried sailing up and down it a bit.
"I reckon Mitchell can knock up a boat to give fits to anything of Wyatt's; and if 'Bias if Cap'n Hunken is countin' on Wyatt to help him put the fool on me, it may happen he'll learn better." "'Tis good to wear a bit of colour again," said Mrs Bosenna on Regatta morning, as she stood before her glass pinning to her bodice a huge bow of red, white, and blue ribbons. "Black never did become me."
"Well, mistress, natur' is natur': and we knows what we can't help knowin'." "That's true," Mrs Bosenna agreed. It was her turn to sigh. "Cap'n Hunken's the man," repeated Dinah. She nodded her head on it and paused. "Though, if you ask my opinion, Cap'n Hocken 'd make the better husband." "It's difficult." "Ay. . . . For my part I don't know what you want with a husband at all."
In the middle of the sandheap was a pit, which appeared to be somebody's grave; and somewhere in the background, on the far side of the pit, stood Mrs Bosenna and Tabb's girl together, the one watching with a queer smile, while the other kept repeating, "He's going to hell. He couldn't change his habits, and it's high time the Quay was improved."
"I'm romantic perhaps," confessed Mrs Bosenna; "but I can never think of any ship's captain as being quite an ordinary man. The dangers he must go through and the foreign countries he visits and up night after night in all weathers, staring into the darkness in an oilskin suit!" "'Tisn' the sort o' man I should ever choose for a husband, if I wanted one," maintained Dinah.
"Nobody could have guessed it, from the shore," said Mrs Bosenna graciously, and appealed to 'Bias. "Coming through the town I heard it on all hands." "Not so bad," agreed 'Bias, and this, from him, was real praise. "'Not a hitch from first to last the most successful Regatta we've had for years. Those were the very expressions that reached me."
Dinah swept the cards together again and shuffled them. "Shall I tell your fortune, mistress?" she asked mischievously. "No," said Mrs Bosenna, rising. "The rain has stopped, and it's time we were getting home, between the showers." Again Captain Cai and Captain 'Bias offered gallantly to accompany her to the gate of Rilla Farm; but she would have none of their escort.
I couldn't tell it to anything less than a married woman." "That's a pity; because I wanted to know, quick. I suppose, now, you haven't a notion what he did with the bird?" "Not a notion." "I thought not. Well, I have. He's been an' gone an' given it away to Mrs Bosenna, up at Rilla." Mrs Bowldler turned pale and gripped the edge of the table. "I'll bet you any money," Fancy nodded slowly.
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