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"The insulting manner in which he spoke exasperated Eury beyond endurance, and he made as if he would strike the man; but he stopped suddenly, and looking contemptuously at the Frenchman uttered the one word "'Babouin!
Every one who knew me and my dear husband in those far, far back days used to call me 'Mary' and my husband 'Bob Eury' instead of 'Mrs. Eury' and 'Captain Eury. And now, so many, many years have gone... and now I am 'Old Mary'... and I think I like it better than Mrs. Eury. And so Captain Packenham has not forgotten me?" Denison hastened to explain. "Indeed he has not.
They had had a merry midday meal, during which Mary Eury for that was her name promised Denison that she would tell him all about herself after he and the Randles came back from shooting, "but," she added, with her soft, tremulous laugh, "only on one condition, Mr. Denison only on one condition. You must bring Captain Packenham to see me before the Palestine sails.
Bully and Peese sailed for the Ellice and Gilbert groups, and soon news reached Sydney that they had been playing havoc with the traders there. With the traders of Captain Eury, and those of Captain Daly, of the Sydney brig Lady Alicia, they were very rough, appropriating all their oil and other native produce and giving them sarcastically written receipts.
This was soon done, and our former captors parted from us very good friends, every one of them coming up and shaking hands with Robert Eury and calling him bon camarade. We arrived at our destination safely, and as soon as my story was known many kind people wanted to adopt me; but the agent of the Britannia took me to his own home, where I lived for many happy years as a member of his family.
"'I cannot tell you, replied Robert; 'the captain's wife told me it belonged to her children and to the little girl Mary. "The Frenchman laughed. 'It belongs to us now; it is prize money, my good boy. "Eury looked at him steadily, but made no answer. " Come, said the captain impatiently, 'where is it? "'I cannot tell you.
I am an old woman-now, and would like to see him. I knew him many years ago when he was a lad of nineteen. Ah, it is so long ago! That was in Samoa. Has he never spoken of me?" "Often, Mrs. Eury " "Don't call me Mrs. Eury, Mr. Denison. Call me 'Mary, as do these dear friends of mine. 'Mary' 'old' Mary if you like.
The children and yourself are under my protection, and when we reach Valparaiso I will put you all on shore. Then he ordered one of his officers to escort Robert ashore and get the money. "Eury thanked him quietly, and then he turned to Pellatier, and said he was sorry he used an offensive word to him; but Pellatier received his apology with a scowl, and turned away.
Besides Ohlsen and myself, there were two English seamen, a negro named King and a Tahitian native. The youngest of the English sailors was named Robert Eury; he was about twenty-two years of age, and a great favourite of the captain who knew his family in Dorset, England.
"'Soon after you left the house, Mrs. Eury, some natives sighted the two vessels to the north-east and I sent the boatswain and four men off in one of the whale-boats, little thinking that I was sending them to their death. Four canoes went with the boat.
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