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"Very well, Caton; I am perfectly satisfied, and am, indeed, greatly obliged to you; yet before we go out I desire to speak a word or two with the utmost frankness." I stood facing him, my hand resting lightly upon the writing-table, my eyes reading his expressive face. "As my second I wish you to comprehend fully my actions, and the motives that inspire them.
Rodney, therefore, contented himself with reversing the order of sailing, putting Hood in the rear, whereby he was able to refit, and yet follow fast enough not to be out of supporting distance. This circumstance caused Hood's division to be in the rear in the battle of the 12th. One of the French ships, the Caton, 64, had been so injured that de Grasse detached her into Guadeloupe.
"Gethin Owens!" said the captain, in a tone of surprise. "What? the dark brown chap with the white teeth and the bright eyes like a starling's?" Sara nodded "and gold rings in his ears?" "That's him," said Sara. "Do you know him?" "Caton pawb! as well as if he was my own son. He's mate of the Gwenllian, trading to Monte Video and other foreign parts.
This lengthy and exhausting preparation, partly dietetic, partly suggestive, was accompanied by a solemn service of prayer and sacrifice, whose symbolism tended highly to excite the imagination." Caton: Temples and Ritual of Asklepios, 2d ed., London, 1900. Max Neuburger: History of Medicine, English translation, Oxford, 1910, p. 94.
Plutarch, in Vitâ Caton. See also de Invent. i. 36. Paterculus, i. 12, etc. Plutarch, in Vitt. Lucull. et Syll. Gravin. Origin. Juris Civil. lib. i. c. 44. Quinct. xii. 2. Auct. Dialog. de Orator. 31. De Nat. Deor. i. 4; de Off. i. 1; de Fin.; init. Acad. Quæst. init. etc. Tusc Quæst. i. 3; ii. 3; Acad. Quæst. i. 2; de Nat. Deor. i. 21; de Fin. i. 3, etc.; de Clar. Orat. 35.
Caton approves of this match, and therefore A. B. does, for he respects greatly the opinions of Mrs. Caton. I like much your reasoning about Morris's place and Richmond Hill. Yet would not a permanent residence in town for some, for many, for all reasons, be better? La G. is much better than I had heard d'un certaine age, and well-looking, considering that circumstance.
Caton approves of this match, and therefore A. B. does, for he respects greatly the opinions of Mrs. Caton. I like much your reasoning about Morris's place and Richmond Hill. Yet would not a permanent residence in town for some, for many, for all reasons, be better? La G. is much better than I had heard d'un certaine age, and well-looking, considering that circumstance.
On his return, he was under the necessity of passing very near the French seventy-four, but having disguised his ship with French colours, and a bonnet rouge at her head, he went boldly under the enemy's stern, and hailed her in French. She was the ship from L'Orient, Le Caton, which had been obliged to return to port disabled, and her pumps were going as she lay at anchor.
"No," I answered firmly, "there would be no possibility of success in such a course. Those fellows are old hands, and have pickets out. See, Caton, that is certainly a picket-fire yonder where the road dips. Every man of us would be shot down before we penetrated those guard lines and attained the house.
"Look you here," he said to Ann and Gethin, who both hovered round him on his return with loving attentions, "look you here now; wasn't a gentleman in the market looking smarter than our Will to-day! There was the young son of Mr. Vaughan the lawyer, was dressed like him exactly same brown hat, same grey suit, and his boots not shining so well as Will's! Caton pawb! there's handsome he was!
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