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We were seated in his cabin and I explained my views about Arkansas Post, and asked his cooperation. He said that he was short of coal, and could not use wood in his iron-clad boats. Of these I asked for two, to be commanded by Captain Shirk or Phelps, or some officer of my acquaintance.
"Although the sun was obscured by mists," Trelawney writes, "it was oppressively sultry. There was not a breath of air in the harbor. The heaviness of the atmosphere and an unwonted stillness benumbed my senses. I went down into the cabin and sank into a slumber. I was roused up by a noise overhead, and went on deck. The men were getting up another chain-cable to let go another anchor.
He lowered his voice, with a glance toward the companion way and the other cabin. "I thought old Joe was a goner, though, fellows. I was about forty feet away, I suppose, when I heard him yell, and before I could get back he'd gone down. I was afraid he meant to keep on going, but he thrashed his way up again and I managed to grab him.
Before Stephen could answer he was summoned to the door. Talbot looked in upon them, but would not come inside. "I've sent Will off," he said; "he swore like anything, but he is gone. No, thanks, Steve, I won't come in. I'm tired, and going to my own cabin now. See you at breakfast. Good-night," and before Katrine could thank him he was gone.
He took Paul into a roomy cabin, and introduced him to his wife, a Very obese yellow woman, who was reclining on a sofa. The woman was undoubtedly of negro blood; but to Paul's profound astonishment, she had as fine a brogue as her husband. After some conversation Paul ventured to ask the captain how this happened.
"Then why can't we Meadow-Brook Girls use it while we are in camp? I should love to be down by the water, with the sea almost at my feet." "I should think you would have had enough of the sea, after your dreadful experience of last night," laughed Mrs. Livingston. "I am fascinated with the sea. It is wonderful! Do you think we could have the cabin?" "I will consult with Miss Elting.
Why, a glance from my eye alone would be sufficient to put a whole host of the niggers to flight!" "As you please, Major Bubsby," said Jack. "I shall be ready to appropriate a portion of my after cabin to your wife and daughters, and I will direct the carpenter to put up a screen, that they may live in private if they wish to do so." "Ah, that will do, that will do," answered the major.
"Have you no light at hand?" said my companion, speaking for the first time, in a very soft yet clear voice. "No, I have not, but I will get some tinder, and make a fire with one of the fagots, and then you will be able to see." "Do so, then, my good lad," replied she. I thought her voice very pleasing. She examined the cabin and the bed-places, and then said: "Where do you sleep?"
A small vial of a harmless soporific, a closed carriage, a private cabin on board a Channel steamer with these and a little of the adroitness so remarked in the celebrated Bucket, the affair is in the bag! John's Forest; worth abode of a miscreant fit for the Forest of Bondy! At the first sight you would say a philanthrope, a friend of man.
All this I saw peeping through a sort of meat-safe which ventilates the top of the cabin, and very happy and hot did the people seem below. "How the deuce CAN people dine at such an hour?" say several genteel fellows who are watching the manoeuvres. "I can't touch a morsel before seven." But somehow at half-past three o'clock we had dropped a long way down the river.
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