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Plymouth harbor's maritime and naval history is, however, interwoven with that of England. The port of Plymouth comprises what are called the "Three Towns" Plymouth proper, covering about a square mile, Stonehouse, and Devonport, where the great naval dockyard is located.
Sir Ratcliffe and his son called upon the Duke; but, as they had anticipated, the family had quitted town. Our travellers put up at Hatchett's, and the following night started for Exeter in the Devonport mail. Ferdinand arrived at the western metropolis having interchanged with his father scarcely a hundred sentences.
"There has been a serious naval disaster in the South Seas," said Jacquetot, "and we must clean up the mess, pretty damn quick. The news came yesterday. Orders were wired at once that two battle-cruisers, the Intrepid and Terrific, should be sent at full speed from Scotland to Devonport to dock, coal, and complete with stores.
She said smilingly and almost calmly: "I'm so proud. I think it's wonderful your going out there." What more is there to tell of that old first period of my life which ended at the gates of Devonport Dockyard? There was a long railway journey with Doe, where half the best of green England, clad in summer dress, swept in panorama past our carriage windows.
In this way she blurted out the story of her fright, and he, still clasping her, listened until she was calm. "But what are you doing here? How did it all happen?" she said. She did not know what she was saying for happiness. Little by little he told her. The Pennant had put in to Devonport for repairs a week before. He had been granted a month's leave, and his first thought had been Roscarna.
They could blow up Portsmouth, Sheerness, and Devonport before any one really knew that the war had started." She spoke rapidly, almost feverishly, leaning forward and gripping the edge of the table, till the skin showed white on her knuckles. I think I was equally excited, but I tried not to show it. "Yes," I said; "it sounds a promising notion." "Promising!" she echoed.
There were strange people in this train soldiers and sailors from Devonport; some foreigners too, or people dressed up to look like foreigners; numbers of men also who kept their heads down as he was doing, as if for some jolly good private reason. Who the hell were they really? Detectives?
There is no necessity to go to one extreme or the other. I think I was permitted to be thus unsettled in my mind, because I did not keep to my work with a single eye to God's glory. Devonport, 1855. I was at this time invited to preach in a church in Devonport, where it pleased the Lord to give blessing to His word. With this exception, my work was, generally speaking confined to individual cases.
I had not the slightest trace of courage for the miners; I did not see how the government could have any courage for them. And I had no courage for the dockers, or for what could be expected of the dockers. I did not see how Lord Devonport could have any courage for them. I repeated their prayer to myself. The dockers were cowards.
Otis, were merely such as form the ordinary conversation of cultured Americans of the better class, such as the immense superiority of Miss Fanny Devonport over Sarah Bernhardt as an actress; the difficulty of obtaining green corn, buckwheat cakes, and hominy, even in the best English houses; the importance of Boston in the development of the world-soul; the advantages of the baggage-check system in railway traveling; and the sweetness of the New York accent as compared to the London drawl.
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