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"When, cher Etooelle, when?" he asked, his whisper being tremulous, in spite of every effort to command himself. Aye there she swings off! don't you hear the call?" Raoul did hear the whistle of the boatswain, which was piping "lower away" at that very moment.
As there was now a considerable land-breeze, and the yawl was lightened of so much of her freight, there was little doubt of his being able to effect his purpose, so far as getting out of sight was concerned, at least, long ere the return of light. "Pardie, Etooelle!" Raoul exclaimed, after he had given the American jog the third, "you sleep like a friar who is paid for saying masses at midnight.
But not afoot this side of Sorrento will I quit thee. We can pull thither in an hour or two; then I shall feel that I have done a duty. Once ashore, Etooelle and I can set our little sail, and will run out to sea between the two islands. No fear but what we can do that, with this land breeze; after which, a few rockets burned will tell us where to find le Feu-Follet."
"Is this the gentleman you mean, Etooelle?" demanded Raoul, when the cabin-lamp shone on the prisoner's face; "he who was so much rejoiced to hear that his enemy was not hanged?" "'Tis the same, Captain Rule; in the main, he is a good-natured officer one that does more harm to himself than to any one else. They said in the ship, that he went up to Naples to do you some good turn or other."
"Bon, brave Etooelle," he said, "your bags of bullets were welcome friends, and they arrived at the right moment." "Why, Captain Rule, in the Granite country we are never wasteful of our means. You can always wait for the white of Englishmen's eyes in these affairs. They're spiteful devils, on the whull, and seem to be near-sighted to a man. They came so clus' at Bunker Hill, our folks "
"That is un brave" said Raoul, with emphasis, as they departed. "If ever I meet with Monsieur Cleench, he will learn that I do not forget his good wishes. Peste! if there were a hundred such men in the British marine, Etooelle, we might love it." "They're fiery serpents, Captain Rule, and not to be trusted, any on 'em.
In short, that we live in an imaginary world, with imaginary people in it; float on an imaginary sea, and cruise in imaginary ships." "And was all that noise about an idee, Captain Rule?" "Si but men will quarrel about an idea an imaginary thing, Etooelle as stoutly as about substantials. Hist! They will chase imaginary things, too, as are the boats ahead of us at this moment."
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