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They all came to the meeting bream, and perch, and roach, and dace, and gudgeon; yes, and the little ersh with his spiny back. The silly roach said, "Let us kill the pike." But the gudgeon looked at him with his great eyes, and asked, "Have you got good teeth?" "No," says the roach, "I haven't any teeth." "You'd swallow the pike, I suppose?" says the perch. "My mouth is too small."
Sometimes the journeys were set about on horseback in a large party, with the fourriers sent forward to prepare a lodging at the next stage. We find almost Gargantuan details of the provision made by these officers against the duke's arrival, of eggs and butter and bread, cheese and peas and chickens, pike and bream and barbel, and wine both white and red.
The sunfish and bream floated with quivering fins or darted among the rippling shadows on that autumn morning as we see them doing now. The mocking-bird sang among the overhanging branches the same varied song which gladdens our ears, and the wild deer then, as now, lay peacefully in the shady coverts of the neighboring woods.
Our real exhilaration from one glass of wine is gone for ever, gone is Agasha, gone the bream with boiled grain, gone the uproar that greeted every little startling incident at dinner, such as the cat and dog fighting under the table, or Katya's bandage falling off her face into her soup-plate. To describe our dinner nowadays is as uninteresting as to eat it.
But we shall see one another again up here afterwards?" "We will," said Sam. "We'll sit and read Tennyson." "Fine! Er you and I and Mortimer?" "Oh no, Bream is going to sit down below and look after poor Pinky." "Does he does he know he is?" "Not yet," said Billie. "I'm going to tell him at lunch." It was the fourth morning of the voyage.
"Billy," said Captain Bream one day, a few months after the wedding-day just described, "come with me to the Theological Library; I want to have a chat with 'ee, lad." Billy followed his new-found uncle, and sat down opposite to him. "Now, lad, the time has come when you and I must have it out. You're fond o' hard work, I'm told."
"No ... that is to say ... oh no, not at all." There was a third pause. "On second thoughts," said Bream, "I believe I'll take a stroll on the promenade deck, if you don't mind." They said they did not mind. Bream Mortimer, having bumped his head twice against overhanging steel ropes, melted away. "Who is that fellow?" demanded Sam wrathfully. "He's the son of father's best friend." Sam started.
Bream Mortimer! What a silly thing to hope!" "Well, you see, I told you that Mr. Mortimer was father's best friend. They are both over in England now, and are trying to get a house in the country for the summer which we can all share. I rather think the idea is to bring me and Bream closer together." "How the deuce could that fellow be brought any closer to you? He's like a burr as it is."
Water passed with little hindrance through the platform, while jew-fish, yellow-tail, and bream, were retained in considerable numbers. Many years have elapsed peradventure centuries since the blacks of Missionary Bay, Hinchinbrook Island, built a weir of blocks and boulders of granite which oysters cemented here and there. On the fulness of spring tides fish frolicked over and among the boulders.
Billie gazed wistfully at the counterpane. "Do you know, father, I'm beginning to think that I'm rather impulsive. I wish I didn't do silly things in such a hurry." "I don't see where the hurry comes in as regards that Mortimer boy. You took ten years to make up your mind." "I was not thinking of Bream. Another man." "Great Heavens! Are you still imagining yourself in love with young Hignett?"
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