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Alaric also received a letter from Captain Cuttwater, in which that gallant veteran expressed his great joy at the result of the examination 'Let the best man win all the world over, said he, 'whatever his name is. And they'll have to make the same rule at the Admiralty too.
The fact, however, was that Captain Cuttwater was accustomed to a small tent bedstead in a room without a carpet, that he usually slept on a single mattress, and that he never had a fire in his bedroom, even in the depth of winter. Travelling from Devonport to London is now an easy matter; and Captain Cuttwater, old as he was, found himself able to get through to Hampton in one day. Mrs.
Poor Captain Cuttwater, grieved to have his good nature checked, was obliged to put up with this excuse, and consoled himself with abusing the Government which could condescend to give so absurd an order. This was on the Saturday. On the Sunday, going to church, the captain suggested that Alaric might, at any rate, just call upon Sir Jib on the sly.
Alaric began to take his friend's part, and declared what a very worthy fellow Harry was. 'I am sure of it I am sure of it, said Uncle Bat; 'but everybody can't be A1; and a man can't make everybody his heir. Alaric pricked up his ears. So after all Captain Cuttwater was right in calling his communication important.
He never took answers, but made every request the subject of a prolonged correspondence; till at last some energetic Assistant-Secretary declared that it should no longer be borne, and Captain Cuttwater was dismissed with pension and half-pay.
Captain Cuttwater, however, on this occasion, insisted on seeing the chestnuts and the crowd, and consequently, they all went into Bushey Park. Uncle Bat, who professed himself to be a philanthropist, and who was also a bit of a democrat, declared himself delighted with what he saw.
He had remained, he said, in order that Captain Cuttwater might have company; but Linda was not slow to learn that Uncle Bat had been left to doze away the time by himself. Why, on the following Monday, had Gertrude been down so early, and why had Alaric been over from the inn full half an hour before his usual time? Linda saw and knew all this, and was disgusted.
There could be no danger of any one falling in love with him, for Katie was still a child. Things stood thus at Surbiton Cottage when Mrs. Woodward received a proposition from a relative of her own, which surprised them all not a little. This was from a certain Captain Cuttwater, who was a maternal uncle to Mrs.
But when Gertrude said 'I will, she was thinking of Harry Norman, and grieving that he was not there. And Captain Cuttwater was there, radiant in a new blue coat, made specially for the occasion, and elastic with true joy. He had been very generous. He had given L1,000 to Alaric, and settled L150 a year on Gertrude, payable, of course, after his death.
'Men go down and come up again every day of their lives, and what other men can do, I can, I suppose. 'That doesn't follow at all, said Captain Cuttwater, 'What sort of a figure would you make on a yard-arm, reefing a sail in a gale of wind? 'Pray do take care of yourself, said Gertrude. Norman's brow grew black. 'I thought that it was settled that Mr.
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