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"Hope you do; two dollars ain't much, but it's something, and nowadays everything counts. Will you read these letters for me? My eyesight ain't none of the best any more, and besides, writing is kinder stiff reading for me at the best." "Certainly I will, Mr. "Avast there on that figurehead!" interrupted the old tar. "Doc Linyard, I'll do it with pleasure."
The crux of the situation rested on such a man as they should place in the highest office in the state. In other times, under other conditions, some pliant and amiable figurehead might serve them well.
It was indeed a cult with her, a passion as though she felt herself a sort of figurehead to national domesticity; the leader of a patriotic movement. Lord Valleys, having finished what seemed necessary, arose. "Any message to your mother, Gertrude?" "No, I wrote last night." "Tell Miltoun to keep an eye on that Mr. Courtier. I heard him speak one day he's rather good."
The only embargo that I lay upon you is haul off, and mind you don't let your figurehead go by the board. Meanwhile, here comes the boat. Now, Nigel, none o' your courtin' till everything is settled and the wind fair dead aft my lad, and blowin' stiff. You and the hermit are goin' off to Krakatoa to-day, I suppose?" "Yes. I am just now waiting for him and Moses," returned Nigel.
But after a while Jason observed that the foliage of a great branch which stretched above his head had begun to rustle as if the wind were stirring that one bough, while all the other boughs of the oak were at rest. "Cut me off!" said the branch, as soon as it could speak distinctly; "cut me off! cut me off! and carve me into a figurehead for your galley."
"Well, I tell you now," replied the lad, "I didn't half a quarter like the job till I had this talk with you, John; but there's my hand on it now." "And a brave lad you were, and smart too," answered Silver, shaking hands so heartily that all the barrel shook, "and a finer figurehead for a gentleman of fortune I never clapped my eyes on."
They were passing with a salute, when a strange thing happened. Rover, the old dog-leader, who had been riding in the bow standing well forward, as if taking the place of a painted figurehead, suddenly began to bark furiously. At the same time, Marian caught sight of a bearded face framed in a porthole. Involuntarily she shrank back out of sight.
You must remember that this happened in 1826. "Du Tillet, struck through he was by an idea both pregnant and ingenious, naturally bethought himself that if the enterprise failed, the blame must fall upon somebody. For which reason, it occurred to him to put forward a figurehead director in charge of his commercial machinery.
The Germans had shoved him aside to make room for Malieto, an imbecile and a German figurehead. I was there again when Mataafa, at the end of those six years, returned to Samoa, to the great joy of his people. A few years later I discovered that Germany's policy was to "mark" any individual who wrote or spoke in criticism of anything German.
Dry as a bone and clane as a gull's wing. You could lie with your back to the wall and ate off the floor. Taps inside and water as white as gin. I've been buying the cabin of the 'Mona's Isle' for a summer-house in the garden. Got a figurehead for the porch too, and I'll have an anchor for the gate before I'm done. Aw, I'm bound to have everything nice for her."
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