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"Judy, you are the brickiest brick, and the trumpest trump! Come here and let me shake you. Hasn't it been horrid such a little thing, but everybody in such a stew," she added in a confidential tone, which was ample reward to Judith. "And now we can be rid of her, the little wretch! Three cheers for the first mate of the 'Jolly Susan!" The two of them went arm in arm down to the Captain's room.
This incident, however displeasing to the people, did yet for a considerable time awe them to their duty, and rendered them more submissive to the captain's authority.
If he had seen Captain Cy, at two o'clock the next morning, sitting by Bos'n's bedside and gazing hopelessly at the child, he would have realized that, if his former predictions were wiped off the slate and he could be judged by the one concerning the captain's sleepless night, he might thereafter pose as a true prophet.
I guess you think we're all the better without the kites." "That's not what I'm thinking," said Herrick, in a voice strangely quiet, that yet echoed confusion in the captain's mind. "I know that," he cried, holding up his hand. "I know what you're thinking. No use to say it now. I'm sober." "I have to say it, though," returned Herrick. "Hold on, Herrick; you've said enough," said Davis.
The captain had not thought it necessary to enjoin secrecy upon them, for there was no communication with the shore, no fear of the knowledge spreading beyond the ship; besides, the boat had to be damaged, and this alone would tell the sailors, when she was lowered in the water, that she was intended to be captured. A marine was called up to where the captain's gig was hanging from the davits.
Mr Dott was reported to the captain for this heinous offence; and, in consequence, was ordered below under arrest, his place in the captain's gig being filled up by me; so that in every point of view Tommy suffered, and I reaped the harvest. What pleased me most was, that, being midshipman of the captain's boat, I was of course continually in the company of the coxswain, Bob Cross.
I do not admire the captain's manners; I see now that I should not have invited him." "On the contrary, niece, he is a very well-behaved man. I have invited him to come here very often, and play backgammon with me that is, to pay his addresses to you." Nathalie saw that the captain had gained her uncle's heart, and she forgave him for having been less attentive to her.
I remembered what Phin Cahoon had said about the telegram and the captain's making him promise not to mention the name of the person to whom it was sent. It was George, of course. If I had been in a normal state of mind when Phin told me I should have guessed as much. Taylor took up the conversation. "Yes, I got here," he said.
"I told you so," she said. "I knew it was coming. And the first gun brought me down here to be ready. I've been out to Western Virginia; and I came back here when we got the news of this. I shall follow round, wherever the clouds roll." In Washington, still another meeting awaited them. Paul Rushleigh, in a Captain's uniform, came, one day, to the table of their hotel.
One of these gentlemen, a highly esteemed shipmaster and friend, testified as government expert in a famous murder trial in Boston, not long since, that a ship would not hold her course long enough for the steersman to leave the helm to cut the captain's throat. Ordinarily it would be so. One might say that with a square-rigged ship it would always be so.
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