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"We can't all be Stanleys and Burtons," said I; "besides, we don't get the chance, at least, I never had the chance. If I did, I should try to take it." "But chances are all around you. It is the mark of the kind of man I mean that he makes his own chances. You can't hold him back. I've never met him, and yet I seem to know him so well. There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
Trieste, a small commercial consulate with 600 pounds sterling a year salary and 100 pounds office allowance, was a sad drop after Damascus, at 1,000 pounds a year and work of a diplomatic order. But the Burtons could not afford to refuse the offer, for their needs were pressing, and they took it in the hope of better things, which never came.
Why, you dead-eye! I have sailed with lords and marquises for captains; and the King of the Two Sicilies has passed me, as I here stood up at my gun. Bah! you are full of the fore-peak and the forecastle; you are only familiar with Burtons and Billy-tackles; your ambition never mounted above pig-killing! which, in my poor opinion, is the proper phrase for whaling!
The Burtons also attended a banquet at the Mansion House, which interested them more than a little; and when they wanted to make remarks and they were in the habit of expressing themselves very freely they spoke Arabic, thinking no one would understand it.
Just now, in the midst of this commonplace, exceedingly middle-class evening party, with the Larkins, the Downings, and the Burtons chattering, warm, diffuse, and elate, about him, she stirred him with a little horror not horror of herself, but of something in her mood. "Do you think I am such a bad fellow?" he said. "No," she answered. "Worse, poor thing.
Not only was he obliged to respect this humble Christian for his consistent walk, but he owed him a large debt of gratitude; for when he and his family all lay ill at one time of an epidemic fever, the Burtons, when no one else would go near the house, waited on them day and night.
If Miss Burton keeps you waiting now by any prudent fear on her part, I shall not think so well of her as I am inclined to do." "The Burtons are all prudent people." "Tell her, from me, with my love, not to be too prudent. I thought to be prudent, and see what has come of it." "I will tell her what you say." "Do, please; and, Harry, look here. Will she accept a little present from me?
"Captain Ahab mistakes; it is I. The oil in the hold is leaking, sir. We must up Burtons and break out." "Up Burtons and break out? Now that we are nearing Japan; heave-to here for a week to tinker a parcel of old hoops?" "Either do that, sir, or waste in one day more oil than we may make good in a year. What we come twenty thousand miles to get is worth saving, sir."
Always suffering from impecuniosity, the Burtons were perpetually revolving schemes for increasing their income. One was to put on the market a patent pick-me-up, good also for the liver, to be called, "Captain Burton's Tonic Bitters," the recipe of which had been "acquired from a Franciscan monk."
He was not aware that he had any special reason for being silent on the subject, but he made up his mind that the Burtons were people so far removed in their sphere of life from Lady Ongar, that the subject would not be suitable in Onslow Crescent. It was his lot in life to be concerned with people of the two classes.
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