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They knew what they meant just as well as though they had been indecent enough to say it. "Help us to turn out Medland, and you shall be Chief Justice," said Kilshaw, in the name of Sir Robert Perry, "Chief Justice, and once more a persona grata at Government House." Chief Justice! Soon, perhaps, Sir Alfred! Would not that soften the Eynesford heart? Mr. Coxon honestly thought it would.
See, I have written and apologised to Mr. Coxon." And Lady Eynesford kissed her and thanked heaven that they would soon have done with Mr. Coxon and all the rest. A few days later, Mr. Dick Derosne was walking in the Park at noon. He had been down to the Club and found no one there.
While I was at dinner with my Lord, the Coxon of the Vice-Admiral came for me to the Vice-Admiral to dinner. So I told my Lord and he gave me leave to go. I rose therefore from table and went, where there was very many commanders, and very pleasant we were on board the London, which hath a state-room much bigger than the Nazeby, but not so rich.
Captain Coxon thereupon swarmed up her sides, with a gang of pirates, helping up after him the valorous Peter Harris "who had been shot through both his legs, as he boldly adventured up along the side of the ship." The Biscayners were driven from their guns, disarmed, and thrust down on to the ballast, under a guard. All the wounded pirates were helped up to the deck and made comfortable.
"Not not Alicia, with one man? Worse and " "Yes." "Mr. Coxon, then, I hope? At least he's safe." "No." "Who then?" "I don't know why you should ask " "Alicia! Was it ?" exclaimed Eleanor, with a gesture towards where she had found her friend. "Mr. Medland? Yes," answered Alicia. And, in her effort to exclude timidity, she infused into her voice a note of defiance.
What does he want here?" asked the Captain. Mr. Coxon asked for Lady Eynesford. When he entered, she rose with a newspaper in her hand. "What a shocking, shameful thing this is!" she said. "What a blessing it is that the Government was beaten!" Coxon acquiesced in both these opinions. "I never thought well of him," continued the lady. "Now everybody sees him in his true colours.
You weren't at the Governor's party the other night?" Coxon, gratified at this cordial greeting, joined Mr. Kilshaw. They were alone in the Club luncheon-room, and Coxon was always anxious to hear anything that Sir Robert or his friends had to say. There was always a possibility that it might be very well worth his while to listen. "I wasn't there," he said. "I don't go when I can help it."
They would probably have landed to sack the town on this day, had not a quarrel broken out between some of the company and Captain Coxon. The question had been brought forward, whether the buccaneers should go cruising in the South Sea, in their prizes, or return, overland, to their ships at Golden Island. It was probably suggested, as another alternative, that they should land to sack the town.
When I had said this, Coxon turned black in the face with passion. His eyes protruded, his hands and fingers worked as though he were under some electrical process, and I saw for the first time in my life a sight I had always laughed at as a bit of impossible novelist description, a mouth foaming with rage. He rushed aft, just over Duckling's cabin, and stamped with all his might.
The "Hunter" gave chase for twenty-four hours, but being outsailed was content to take two small vessels in the company of Coxon which had been deserted by their crews.
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