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This craft is just gettin' out of the doldrums. There's a fair wind and clear weather comin' for the Dott frigate, or I'm no sailor. You just trust me and wait. Yes, and let Gertie alone." He positively refused to explain what he meant by this optimistic prophecy, or to permit his wife to go to their daughter.
During the time that we remained at Port Royal I continued my studies in the cabin and as the captain remained almost altogether on shore, I found the run of the cabin very pleasant; but as I had no inclination to study the whole of the day, I was not sorry that Tommy Dott was very often my companion in the cabin, an entrance to which, as he could not pass the sentry at the door, he obtained by climbing down the mizen chains, and creeping into the port windows.
"How d'ye do, Mr Dott?" said Bob Cross, while I turned away. "What Cross, is that you? Are you dressed?" "Yes, sir, can't be helped. I'm glad I'm to sail with you, sir. What's become of Mr Keene?" "Oh, I don't know; but if he's not hanged by this time, I believe that he's to join the ship." "Won't I pull your ears for that?" thought I. "What other officers have we of the Calliope, sir?"
And her last letter was so short she was so busy with the Atterbury preparations that she could not write more, she said and yours was so very, very long, and SO full of lonesomeness " Her father interrupted. Lonesomeness was the very thing he had tried to keep out of that letter. "Gertrude Atwell Dott!" he shouted. "How you talk! I never wrote a word " "Yes, you did.
And might I take the liberty of saying that if you decide to stay 'ere permanently, ma'am, and need a butler or a manservant about the place, I should be glad to 'ave you consider me for the position. I'm sure it would 'ave pleased the late Mrs. Dott to 'ave you do so, ma'am." "Well," said the captain, with surprising promptness for him, "you see, Mr.
Gertrude was all excitement. "Oh, how interesting!" she said. "Do tell us about her, Mr. Holway. Do I know her?" "Know her!" Mr. Holway's indignation was intense. "I I don't know her myself. He's just guying, Miss Dott. He he thinks because he he is so confoundedly fascinating, and has so many so many
One morning, when, as usual, Tommy Dott had come through the port, we were so busily employed with a caricature which we were making of old Culpepper, that the captain's boat came alongside without our being aware of it, and the captain's voice speaking to the first lieutenant as he was descending the after-ladder was the first intimation we received of his being on board.
"Well, we must send another midshipman; call Mr Keene," said Captain Delmar. The sentry called me, and I made my appearance. "Mr Keene, you'll go on shore to the dockyard in the jolly-boat: give that letter to the master attendant, and wait for an answer." "Yes, sir," replied I. "Have you seen anything of Mr Dott?" said the first lieutenant; "you are constantly together."
For mercy sakes fasten those last three hooks; I'm almost distracted with 'em." But the hooks remained unfastened for the time. Captain Dan threw himself into a chair and waved the letter. "Serena," he cried, puffing like a stranded porpoise, "what WHAT do you suppose has happened? Aunt Laviny is dead." Serena turned. "Dead!" she repeated. "Your Aunt Lavinia Dott? The rich one?"
When he came down into the cabin, I moved from my seat, as respectful and serious as before; and when ordered to sit down again, resumed my studies with great apparent diligence. He did not say a word to me about Tommy Dott; and as he was going out of the cabin, Mr Culpepper was announced by the sentry.
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