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"D'ye know, lads," continued Bremner in a half-musing tone, "I've sometimes been led to couple this character of Smeaton with the text that he put round the top of the first room of the lighthouse 'Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it'; and also the words, 'Praise God', which he cut in Latin on the last stone, the lintel of the lantern door.
"Well," resumed Bremner, "as you all know, the Eddystone Rocks lie in the British Channel, fourteen miles from Plymouth and ten from the Ram Head, an' open to a most tremendious sea from the Bay o' Biscay and the Atlantic, as I knows well, for I've passed the place in a gale, close enough a'most to throw a biscuit on the rocks.
Bremner," I added. "Thank you!" "Hair pins, hat pins, safety pins or clothes pins?" I queried. "Just pins, with points and heads on them, if you don't mind." I bowed ceremoniously. "We shall be over this afternoon, when we have made a list of the supplies we require," she went on. As I hunted for the pins, she began to look in her purse for a five cent piece.
Bremner, I have no desire to stop, not till God calls me. "I see you have been making changes even in your short time here," he said, pointing to the store. "Yes! I think Jake and I did fairly well yesterday," I answered, not a little proudly. "Splendidly, my boy! And, do you know, your coming here means a great deal.
It broke before reaching the beacon, and the spray dashed right over it, carrying away several of the smith's tools. "Ho, boys! lend a hand here, some of you," shouted Ruby, as he leaped down on the mortar-gallery again. Jamie Dove, Bremner, O'Connor, and several others were at his side in a moment, and, in the midst of tremendous sprays, they toiled to secure the movable articles that lay there.
"Come, lads," cried Ruby, leaping out of his hammock, "there's nothing like a vigorous jump to put sea-sickness to flight." "Humbug!" ejaculated Bremner, who owned a little black dog, which lay at that time on the pillow gazing into his master's green face, with wondering sympathy. "Ah, Ruby," groaned the smith, "it's all very well for a sea-dog like you that's used to it, but "
I had not the slightest notion, unless it were a resentfulness in me at being taken only for what I, myself, had chosen to become, store-clerk in an out-of-the-way settlement; or an annoyance in her because one of my station should place himself on terms of social equality with every person he happened to meet. I was George Bremner to her. True! Then, she was merely Mary Grant to me.
Bremner!" he shouted to one of the men. "That's me," answered Bremner. "Bring your irons as soon as you like! I'm about ready for you." "Ay, ay, here they are," said the man, advancing with an armful of picks, chisels, and other tools, which required sharpening.
But this soon passed away, as the men's eyes became accustomed to the change, and then the dark loom of the advancing billows, the pale light of the flashing foam, and occasional gleams of phosphorescence, and glimpses of black rocks in the midst of all, took the place of the warm, busy scene which the spot had presented a few minutes before. "Supper, boys!" shouted Bremner.
"Come, lads," cried Ruby, leaping out of his hammock, "there's nothing like a vigorous jump to put sea-sickness to flight." "Humbug!" ejaculated Bremner, who owned a little black dog, which lay at that time on the pillow gazing into his master's green face, with wondering sympathy. "Ah, Ruby," groaned the smith, "it's all very well for a sea-dog like you that's used to it, but "
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