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But this caution was not in the Ensign's disposition; and though his accusers produced no satisfactory charge against him, his own words were quite enough to show how suspicious his character was. When asked his name, he gave it in as Captain Geraldine, on his way to Ireland, by Bristol, on a visit to his cousin the Duke of Leinster.
"Here is food for you all, good people," shouted the midshipmen. "No fear of starving now, for Holt says they left a couple more big fellows which they knocked on the head not a mile away." Harry warmly welcomed him. The ensign's astonishment was, as may be supposed, very great at seeing so large a party.
"Keep up as long as you can, old fellow, the fiction that we're still in the naval service." "Well, aren't we?" demanded Jack, stoutly. "Surely," assented Hal, meekly. "Say," demanded Eph, taking out notebook and pencil, "what is an ensign's pay, anyway?" "Seventeen hundred dollars a year," replied Benson.
This was nothing less than his having procured him an ensign's commission in one of the regiments that was going to the West Indies, for which he had promised but one hundred pounds, his interest having been sufficient to get an abatement of the other two.
"The lad will be somewhere in a French prison," the father said, "and some day he will be set free and come home to us again." The spring of 1703 brought Matthew Blackett's seventeenth birthday, and with it an ensign's commission in a well-reputed regiment of foot. He already stood six feet one in his stockings, and mighty proud he felt when his lanky figure was clothed in his gay uniform.
"Yes, me and Teddy " began Rollo, but Ridge silenced him that they might hear the continuation of the Ensign's story. "At three o'clock on Friday morning, the 3d," resumed Comly, "the Merrimac left the fleet and steamed in towards Santiago entrance.
The precipice was a sheer descent for eighty feet, the ruggedness of its face barely affording foothold for a bird or a mountaineer; and at its base hovered the ensign's party within striking distance. A resisting captive could not be withdrawn by this perilous path. The soldier looked in doubt and suspense about the restricted limits of the cavity in the great crag. The mystery was soon solved.
This address roused me from my reverie, and I replied, with affected dignity, "Come, Sir, be a little more respectful to your superior officer, or I shall send you to the congee-house." Here I could not help lowering the ensign's mighty dignity, by bursting into a loud laugh.
I had nothing more than the poor provision of an ensign's commission to depend on, and the thought of leaving my Amelia to starve alone, deprived of her mother's help, was intolerable to me. "In spite of this I could not keep from telling Amelia the state of my heart, and I soon found all that return of my affection which the tenderest lover can require.
David, a settlement subordinate to Madras, where he obtained from Major Lawrence, one of the best officers then in India, an ensign's commission in the service of the company. Peace between England and France having been established, Madras was restored to its former owners.
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