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Updated: June 27, 2025
No stranger ever passed Captain Cuttwater in the streets of Devonport without asking who he was, or, at any rate, specially noticing him. It must, of course, be admitted that a too strongly pronounced partiality for alcoholic drink had produced these defects in Captain Cuttwater's nasal organ; and yet he was a most staunch friend of temperance.
Those who were inclined to ridicule Captain Cuttwater declared that the most important of them consisted in seeing that the midshipmen in and about the dockyard washed their faces, and put on clean linen not less often than three times a week.
But what business had Captain Cuttwater to talk of making new heirs? had he not declared that the Woodwards were his heirs? 'I have got a little money, Mr. Alaric, he went on saying in a low modest tone, very different from that he ordinarily used; 'I have got a little money not much and it will of course go to my niece here. 'Of course, said Alaric.
'It's too true, Captain Cuttwater, said Alaric, speaking with a sort of mock earnestness which completely took in the captain, but stealing a glance at the same time at the two girls, who sat over their work at the drawing-room table, 'it's too true; and there's no doubt the whole thing must be altered, and that soon. In the first place, we must have a sailor at the head of the navy.
Woodward come down. Then he followed her into the room. 'Good-bye, he said to her suddenly; 'I shall start by the early train to-morrow, and shall not see you. She pressed his hand, but he in nowise returned the pressure. 'Good-bye, Linda; good- bye, Katie; good night, Captain Cuttwater. And so he went his way, as Adam did when he was driven out of Paradise.
At the Weights and Measures Alaric's hours of business had been from ten to five. In Undy's office they continued from one noon till the next, incessantly; even in his dreams he was working in the share market. On his return to town Alaric found a letter from Captain Cuttwater, pressing very urgently for the repayment of his money.
Gertrude, you know very well there is only one thing can make me happy, said Harry. 'Why, you unreasonable man! just now you said you were perfectly happy before Captain Cuttwater came, I suppose the one thing now necessary is to send him away again. 'No, Gertrude, the thing necessary is to take you away. 'What! out of the contamination of poor old Uncle Bat's bottle of rum?
'It seems to me, Harry, that you do not approve of what any of us are doing, said she; 'I fear we are all in your black books Captain Cuttwater, and mamma, and Alaric, and I, and all of us. 'Well now, Gertrude, do you mean to say you think it right that Katie should sit by and hear a man talk as Captain Cuttwater talked last night?
It is hardly too much to say, that no old officers who have lacked the means to distinguish themselves, retire from either of our military services, free from the bitter disappointment and sour feelings of neglected worth, which Captain Cuttwater felt so keenly.
Alaric had some portion of the amount himself, and he knew that Norman had money by him; he felt also a half-drunken conviction that if Norman failed him, Captain Cuttwater would not let him want such a sum; and so he said that he could, and the bargain was completed.
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