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Newton stood at the capstern, with his eyes fixed on the watch. "Captain Drawlock," said Mrs Ferguson, calling to him, "allow me to observe " "Stop," cried Captain Drawlock, in a loud voice. Newton, to whom this was addressed, noted the time.
A few hours after she had anchored, all the passengers, receiving kind messages from, or escorted on shore by their relatives or consignees, had landed; all, with the exception of the three Miss Revels, whose anxiety to land was increased by the departure of the others, and the unpleasant situation in which they were placed, by remaining a clog upon Captain Drawlock, who would not quit his ship until he had surrendered up his charge.
"Twenty-six minutes," continued the captain, reading off his sextant. "A little sooner, I should hope, sir," retorted the colonel. "Forty-five seconds." "This is really quite insufferable! Miss Revel, we had better go in." "Stop!" again cried Captain Drawlock, in a loud voice. "Stop!" repeated Mrs Ferguson, angrily; "surely we are not slaves."
In a foreign country, thousands of miles from their friends, without means of subsistence, or of paying their passage home. What is to become of them?" "I don't care." "That your indignation is just, Colonel Revel, I admit; but allowing that you will not receive them, how are they to return home? Captain Drawlock, I am sure, would give them a passage; but we proceed to China.
While the gentlemen amused themselves, at the extensive range of windows, with the novelty of the scene, and the ladies retired to their apartments to complete the hasty toilet of their disembarkation, Captain Drawlock was very busy in the counting-house below, with the master of the house.
The ladies retired to the withdrawing room; the gentlemen soon followed; but the effects of the wine were so apparent upon most of them, that Captain Drawlock summoned Newton to his assistance, and was in a state of extreme anxiety until his "responsibilities" were safe at home.
"The sun is out, and the horizon pretty clear, sir; you may have sights for the chronometers." "Yes, indeed," said the captain, looking up; "be quick, and fetch my sextant. You'll excuse me, ladies, but the chronometers must be attended to." "In preference to us, Captain Drawlock? Fie for shame!" replied Mrs Ferguson.
"Really, madam, I cannot tell; but it is my duty to inquire," replied the colonel, who, going up to Captain Drawlock, commenced "Have the ladies already so fallen in your estimation " "Forty degrees!" cried Captain Drawlock, who was intent upon his sextant. "Excuse me, sir, just now." "When will you be at leisure, sir?" resumed the colonel, haughtily.
Helena, the first-mate, for a wonder, no longer made any difficulty of going on shore for an hour or two, if he knew that Newton would be the commanding officer during his absence; nay, so high did he stand in the opinion of his captain, that nut only was he permitted to take charge of the chronometers, but, if called away for a time below, Captain Drawlock would hand over to Newton's charge any one of the unmarried responsibilities, who might happen to be leaning on his arm.
Captain Drawlock lost his footing and was thrown to leeward. Isabel would have most certainly kept him company; and indeed was already under weigh for the lee-scuppers, had not it been that Newton Forster, who stood near, caught her round the waist, and prevented her from falling.
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