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For Gertrude's sake she had to make Alaric welcome; she forced herself to smile on him and call him her son; to make him more at home in her house even than Harry had ever been; to give him privileges which he, wolf as he was, had so little deserved. But Captain Cuttwater made up by the warmth of his congratulations for any involuntary coolness which Alaric might have detected in those of Mrs.
One set of midshipmen had succeeded to another, but his old comrades in the news-rooms and lounging-places at Devonport had remained the same; and Captain Cuttwater had never learnt to think that he was not doing, and was not able to do good service for his country. The very name of Captain Cuttwater was odious to every clerk at the Admiralty.
The days of the Howards are gone by; that is, unless they can prove themselves able seamen, which very few of them ever did yet. Let the best man win; that's what I say; and let every man get his fair share of promotion. Alaric did not despise the sympathy of Captain Cuttwater. It might turn out that even Captain Cuttwater could be made of use. Mrs.
Katie predicted that Alaric would certainly marry Mary Jane Wheal, and bring her to Surbiton Cottage, and Captain Cuttwater offered to the hero introductions to all the old naval officers at Devonport. 'By jingo! I should like to go with you, said the captain. 'I fear the pleasure would not repay the trouble, said Alaric, laughing. 'Upon my word I think I'll do it, said the captain.
'Yes, said the captain, 'and one that knows something about it too. 'You'll never have a sailor sitting as first lord, said Norman, authoritatively; 'unless it be when some party man, high in rank, may happen to have been in the navy as a boy. 'And why not? said Captain Cuttwater quite angrily. 'Because the first lord must sit in the Cabinet, and to do that he must be a thorough politician.
Norman was not sorry to urge the fact that the ladies had done so, as an excuse to Captain Cuttwater for not sitting with him over his wine. He heard their voices in the garden, and went out to join them, prepared to ascertain his fate if fortune would give him an opportunity of doing so. He found the party to consist of Mrs. Woodward, Linda, and Katie; Gertrude was not there.
But they had soon done with Captain Cuttwater, and Alaric had to choose another subject. Gertrude and Norman were at some distance from them, but were in sight and somewhat in advance. 'Look at Harry, said Alaric; 'I know from the motion of his shoulder that he is at this moment saying something very tender. 'It is ten times more likely that they are quarrelling, said Linda.
To which Captain Cuttwater rejoined that he should give them a picnic at Richmond before the summer was over. All the world knows how such a party as that of our friends by degrees separates itself into twos and threes, when sauntering about in shady walks.
Captain Cuttwater was most anxious that Alaric, whom he looked on as his adopted son, should rise in the world; he would have been delighted to think that he might possibly live to see him in Parliament; would probably have made considerable pecuniary sacrifice for such an object.
Look at me now, d me, look at me! Here I am, Captain Cuttwater with sixty years' service and I've done more perhaps for the Queen's navy than than
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