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She saw Captain Hunken draw his hand horizontally with a slow explanatory gesture and then drop it abruptly at a right angle. 'Bias was, in fact, at that moment expounding to Cai, point by point and in a condescending way, the right outline of a prize Devon shorthorn. "A trifle o' bluffness in the entry don't matter, if you understand me," said 'Bias, retrieving his lesson.
D'ye know what Cai Hocken said to me, last night in the garden, when he reckoned as I'd lost my money? No, you don't. 'Look here, he said, 'if you've still a mind to that woman and she've a mind to you, I'll stand aside. That's what he said: and d'ye know what I answered? I told him to go to hell." "I see." Fancy stood musing. "Makes it a bit awkward, eh?
"Then why not buy it, ma'am, since 'tis for sale? Though for my part," added Cai, looking round upon the beds which, just now, were unsightly enough, with stiff leafless shoots protruding above their winter mulch, "I can't think what you want with more roses than you have already." "One can never have too many roses," declared Mrs Bosenna.
They were the successful competitors of the dinghy race, mixed up with committee-men: they had come to receive their prizes. The competing boats, their sails lowered, had been brought alongside, and lay tethered, trailing off from the ship's quarter, rubbing shoulders in a huddle. Cai, mounting to the deck close behind Dinah, who had followed her mistress, was met by the Hon.
If he takes me as he finds me I'll do the same by him an' he knows I'll count the sacks. Cap'n Cai here'll tell you I'd never have put such a trick on Philp if he hadn' shown himself so suspicious. I hate a suspicious man. . . . An' that's one reason, Cap'n, why I want you to decide on takin' my place on the School Board.
"He broke it clearin' up the debree in the summer-house after the visitors had gone," Mrs Bowldler explained. "Which being a new departure, I hope you will allow me to pass it by in his case with a caution." In the course of the forenoon Cai paid a call at Mr Rogers's harbour-side store, where he found Mr Rogers himself superintending, from his invalid-chair, the weighing out of coal.
If you admire Lord Rosebery, Now is Your Time He studied this for some moments. "Time for what?" he asked, rubbing his ear softly. "Drinks," suggested Cai, and laughed in pure pleasure of heart. "Come along, man or you'll be makin' me Prime Minister before we get to the Ship. . . Yes, yon's the church Established. You can tell by the four spikes an' the weathercock; like-wise by the tombstones.
"I've written scores and scores. . . . For yourself, is it?" This simple and indeed apparently necessary question hit Cai between wind and water. "I want it written in the first person, of course if that's what you mean?" Again Mr Benny nodded, "I see," said he. "You're here on behalf of a friend, who is too bashful to come on his own account."
She threw him a look which might mean little or much. Cai took it to mean much. "Ma'am, " he began, but she had turned and was appealing to 'Bias. "Captain Hunken and I were at that moment agreeing that a man of your abilities a native of Troy, too and, so to speak, at the height of his powers ought not to be rusting or allowed to rust in a little place where so much wants to be done.
"Lord!" he muttered, "what made ye masthead him up there? . . . Been misbehavin', has he? 'Tis the way I've served 'prentices afore now." "On the contrary, he has been behaving beautifully " "Here, 'Bias!" called down Cai again. "Heft along the tall ladder half a dozen yards to the s'yth'ard, and stand by to help.
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