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"That's so, lad, I'm not goin' to deny it," replied Tom, as he turned the wheel a little to windward: Most landsmen would have supposed that Bill's remark should have been, "We have got dirty weather," for at the time he spoke the good ship was bending down before a stiff breeze, which caused the dark sea to dash over her bulwarks and sweep the decks continually, while thick clouds, the colour of pea-soup, were scudding across the sky; but seafaring men spoke of it as a "capful of wind," and Bill's remark was founded on the fact that, for an hour past, the gale had been increasing, and the appearance of sea and sky was becoming more threatening.
The Jasper B. had lain so long in one spot that it would undoubtedly take more than a capful of wind to move her. Cleggett did not know when he would get such a strong wind again, coming from the right direction, and determined to make the most of this one while he had it. Genius partly consists in the acuteness which grasps opportunities.
"And him sailing her in from Blackhead close round the Manacles, in half a capful o' wind an' the tides lookin' fifty ways for Sunday! That's what he've a-done, for the weather lifted while we was hauling trammel anyways east of south a man could see clear for three mile and more, an' not a vessel in sight there.
"Well," remarked the old man, gazing about him, "it's a good thing that she is, fer, if I'm not mistaken and I'm not often off as regards the weather we are goin' ter have quite a little blow before yer boys get back home." "A storm?" asked Tubby, somewhat alarmed. "Oh, no; not what yer might call a storm," laughed the captain; "but just what we used to term a 'capful uv wind."
"Pooh! not a bit of it," cried the midshipmen in contempt, though they watched the storm with secret anxiety. "As though English-built vessels could not ride out a capful of wind like this! See, it is clearing off already! in an hour's time it will have subsided. As though our anchors would not hold and our sailors keep their heads in such a little mock tempest as this!"
"It blows fresh," cried Griffith, who was the first to speak in that moment of doubt and anxiety; "but it is no more than a capful of wind after all. Give us elbow-room, and the right canvas, Mr. Pilot, and I'll handle the ship like a gentleman's yacht, in this breeze." "Will she stay, think ye, under this sail?" said the low voice of the stranger.
Is this likely to be a gale, think ye? added Mrs Hardy, with an anxious glance at the west, where the sun was setting redly. 'Only a capful of wind, ma'am, just enough to send us along lively, answered Emil, with a comprehensive glance aloft and alow. 'Please sing, Mr Hoffmann, it's so pleasant to have music at this time.
Having profited by the liberal payments of Chancery whilst he was an advocate, Lord Keeper Guildford destroyed one source of profit to counsel from which Francis North, the barrister, had drawn many a capful of money. Saith Roger, "He began to rescind all motions for speeding and delaying the hearing of causes besides the ordinary rule of court; and this lopped off a limb of the motion practice.
"No, my boy," said the captain, laughing, "I hope not. This is only what we sailors call a capful of wind." Mrs Strong was too ill to leave her cabin, but the first-mate came to give the sea-sick lad a friendly grip of the hand, and pat poor Bruff's head as he sat looking extremely doleful, and seeming to wonder what it all meant Mr Morgan, too, made his appearance from time to time.
"When captain said he was going to-night, I was thinking it would take a capful of wind to carry the ship back to sea; and now here's more than a capful." "Ah, yes," said landlord; "it's to-night he goes true enough, and mind you, though he treated me handsome over the rent, I'm not sure it's a loss to the village.
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