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"'Twasn't a good illustration, I admit. But the p'int is, I like 'Bias because he's 'Bias, an' 'Bias likes me because I'm Cai Hocken. That bein' so, don't it follow we're goin' to be better friends than ever, now we've hauled ashore to do as likes us?" The barber shook his head. "You're determined to have off your chin-beard?" "To be sure.
Nor did it greatly mend matters that each, on learning the other's wish upon this or that point where it conflicted with his own, at once made haste to yield. "If that's how 'Bias looks at it," Cai would say, "why o' course we'll make it so. I must have misunderstood him:" and 'Bias on his part would as promptly take back a proposal "Cai thinks otherwise, eh? Oh, well that settles it!
The mate stared, slowly passing a hand across his chin as though to make sure of his own beard. "What indooced 'ee?" "When you're in Rome," said Captain Cai, with a somewhat forced nonchalance, "you do as the Romans do." "Do they?" asked Mr Tregaskis vaguely. "Besides, we ain't," he objected after a moment. "Crew all right?" "Upstairs," this with a jerk of the thumb. "Hey? . . . But why?
Is that Fancy Tabb?" interrupted Cai. He had happened to glance over his shoulder and spied her from the ladder. "Well, and what d'ee think of it?" he asked, as one sure of the answer. "I was sayin' as I'd like to be a Queen," said Fancy. "Queen of England, I mean: none of your second-bests."
Cai and 'Bias the long day over sat in Cai's summer-house, overlooking the placid harbour. Loyal candles yet burned in every window on the far shore and scintillated their little time on the ripple of the tide. Above shone and wheeled in their courses the steady stars, to whom our royalties are less than a pinch of dust in the meanest unseen planet that spins within their range.
It appears you both wished to send me an invitation, and something has gone amiss with your letters." "We both sent the same one," explained Cai, and blushed. "That's the long and short of it, ma'am." "It doesn't seem so very dreadful." Mrs Bosenna's smile was sweetly reassuring. "You both wrote, when it was only necessary for one to write?"
Captain Tobias gazed across at the station clock, then at his friend's face, as if comparing the two. "You've altered your appearance recently. Which some might say 'twas for the better." "Glad you think so," said Captain Cai, modestly pleased. "Others, again, mightn't. But, there!" added Captain Tobias with sudden intensity. "Who cares what folks say?
Captain Cai's first impulse was to search around for a rack whereon to stow a telescope: his next, to run to the party-wall and hoist himself high enough to scan his friend's garden. Yes! 'Bias, too, had a summer-house; not precisely similar in shape, however. Its roof was a lean-to, and its frontage narrower; but of this Captain Cai could not be sure.
"Which, if it is agreeable, we are at home to Captain Hunken this evening," Mrs Bowldler began, in a panting hurry, and continued with a catch of the breath, "Which if you see it in a different light, I must request of you, sir, to allow Palmerston to carry down my box, and you may search it if you wish." "Oh! Conf " began Cai in his turn, and checked himself.
Be it repeated that neither he nor 'Bias had wooed Mrs Bosenna for her wealth; nor until now had her wealth presented itself to either save in comfortable after-thought. Cai sat very still for a while. Then drawing quickly at his pipe, he found that it was smoked out. He arose to tap the bowl upon the bars of the grate.
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