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Updated: May 13, 2025
His mother seemed to be director-general of these monsters, a ruthless deviser of exquisite tortures. There were unseasonable washings, dressings, combings and curlings admonitions to be "a little gentleman."
Tom stared at the tranquil boy, observing to himself, "Lo, it is a wonderful thing, a most strange and curious trade; I marvel they have not hired a boy to take my combings and my dressings for me would heaven they would! an' they will do this thing, I will take my lashings in mine own person, giving God thanks for the change." Then he said aloud
I made for it, and as I found my hands grasping the combings of the gun-room skylight, the brig, with a sudden jerk, righted again. I thought it was only preparatory to going down. Still I held on. The water rolled away, and disappeared from above and beneath me, and I was able to obtain a clear view along the deck. What a scene of destruction and horror met my view!
Even as it was, however, the ship, slashing through the foaming seas, could scarcely look up to the gale, and I every moment expected to see her go right over. The water was rushing through her ports, and rose half-way up the deck to the combings of the hatchway.
I desired the queen’s woman to save for me the combings of her majesty’s hair, whereof in time I got a good quantity; and consulting with my friend the cabinet-maker, who had received general orders to do little jobs for me, I directed him to make two chair-frames, no larger than those I had in my box, and to bore little holes with a fine awl, round those parts where I designed the backs and seats; through these holes I wove the strongest hairs I could pick out, just after the manner of cane chairs in England.
As we broached to, it became a matter of holding on to everything, and by everything eyebrows and all especially between decks. Delightful times these for ditty boxes, crockery, bread barges, and slush tubs; 'tis their only chance for enjoyment and they make the most of it. Such revelry generally winds up with a grand crash somewhere in the vicinity of the iron combings to the hatchways.
Mark answered the question by stumbling up the ladder till he could put his face over the combings of the hatch, and breathe the air blowing over the vessel, Tom Fillot following suit. "You look white as ashes, Vandean," said the lieutenant. "I had no business to let you go down. But the men are not dangerous?"
"And threw the sweepings away, of course?" "Of course; would you have me keep them for treasures?" "It might have been well if you had," muttered the Coroner. "The combings from the lady's hair might have been very useful in establishing her identity." The porter who has charge of the lady's entrance was the last witness from this house.
I should have been swept away, but the combings of the hatch sheltered me a little, and as the hissing splash of the water ceased, I fancied I heard a faint clink of one of the links of the great chain below, while the moment after came more plainly than I had heard it before a smothered, piteous cry "Help!" And again directly after, as if he who uttered the cry were in agony "Help!"
Tom stared at the tranquil boy, observing to himself, "Lo, it is a wonderful thing, a most strange and curious trade; I marvel they have not hired a boy to take my combings and my dressings for me would heaven they would! an' they will do this thing, I will take my lashings in mine own person, giving God thanks for the change." Then he said aloud
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