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"I shall feel like Casabianca presently, and rather ridiculous," she reflected, "but I shall stay till the last possible moment."
Well, then, if you are determined to stand by the ship like Comrade Casabianca, I'll tell you an idea that came to me in the watches of the night. If ever you want to get ideas, John, you spend a night in one of these cells. They flock to you. I suppose I did more profound thinking last night than I've ever done in my life. Well, here's the idea. Act on it or not, as you please.
But that was the least of Jehosophat's worries. He had been given a piece to learn to recite before a big crowd! It was poetry all about a boy who had stuck by his ship and gone down with it, too. The piece was called by the boy's name a queer sort of word Casabianca. If the piece was as hard as its name, Jehosophat thought he never would learn it.
Accordingly a little girl recited 'Casabianca', and another little girl 'We are Seven', and various children were induced to repeat hymns, 'some rather long', as Calverley says, but all very mild and innocuously evangelical. I was then asked by Mrs.
His fortune was in a sense dependent on success: the important position of artillery inspector could not be held by an absentee and it was soon filled by the appointment of a rival compatriot, Casabianca. In the event of failure Buonaparte would be destitute.
"Like Casabianca!" cried Jill, much impressed, for obedience was her hardest trial. "I think he was a fool to burn up," said Frank, bound not to give in. "I don't. It's a splendid piece, and every one likes to speak it, and it was true, and it wouldn't be in all the books if he was a fool.
He rattles off all sorts of pieces, Horatio at the Bridge, and Casabianca, and Anthony's Oration Over Caesar, are easy as pancakes and syrup to him. Then he skips whole grades in school and plows through college like a mole under a rose bush, enjoying himself immensely, no doubt, down there in the dark, but missing all the benefit of the light and air and sunshine.
Had five engagements, too one with Helena Fowler at the links. All I could do was to cut 'em and stick it out. Casabianca was nothing to me." "I believe that was worse than mine," commented Cyrus reflectively. "I should say it was. If you don't think so, try it." "Dinner, boys," said their father's voice at the door, and they lost no time in responding.
There he is, a little cadet de vaisseau, as the French call a midshipman, only ten years old, with a heart swelling between awe and exultation at the prospect of his first battle; but, fearless and glad, for is he not the son of the brave Casabianca, the flag-captain?
"Big enough hole down there," he reported, swinging clear, and sitting with his feet in the shaft. "Regular cave. Three sacks of powder stowed already, so we're none too soon. One sack was leaky. I struck a match, and nearly blew myself to Casabianca." He paused, as if reflecting. "It gives us a plan, though. Rudie: are you game for something rather foolhardy?
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