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"Now keep your weather eye open tight, Flix!" and he threw the wheel over, and fixed his gaze upon the compass in front of him. "You needn't watch the G.-M. very closely, but give me the earliest notice of any change in the course of the pirate; for I can hardly make her out now." "How far is it from here to Port Said?" asked the lookoutman. "To where?
"It spells S-a-h-i-d out here when you mean the port at the entrance of the Suez Canal," replied the captain quietly and with a smile. "Oh, you have become an Arabian scholar!" exclaimed Felix with a hearty laugh. "Honestly, Flix, I did not understand what you meant.
"Of course he does; but I supposed he would give his cue by this time, and begin the business of overhauling the pirate," added Scott. "Felix, is the ship stirring up her screw?" "I think she is, Captain," replied the lookoutman; "but she does not give the signal yet." "Keep your ears wide open tight, Flix, for it will come soon. Where is the pirate now?"
"He was on the end of the bridge, and he may have floated off and come to the surface. Give way again, Flix!" "There he is!" shouted the Milesian, as he bent to his oar with his boatmate. "His head just up out of the water, as though he had just come up from the bottom." A few more strokes brought the boat to the point where Felix had seen the head just as it rose again.
"But you can't help yourself, Flix," laughed the captain. "You see if I don't!" replied the Milesian, shaking his head as though his plan to avoid the endearing reception had already been formed. "We shall see what we shall see," added the captain. "It seems to me that the breeze is stronger here than it was out at sea."
Noury and Miss Blanche; and the pacha was not at all disturbed by his old Mohammedan notions about wives. The rajah took Mrs. Blossom on his arm, and promenaded the upper deck with her under the awnings. "Faix! Oi belayve the ould feller manes to marry her," said Felix. "Nonsense, Flix!
My next shot was for Mazagan; and if he had taken another step in his programme he would not have been in command of that steamer just now." "Perhaps there were some chances for your aim or your calculations to fail," suggested Scott; "though Flix says you never miss your mark when you shoot."
"The fish must go down where the water goes," laughed Felix. "If there are any volcanoes here, I suppose they come up in the winter all boiled or broiled ready for the table." "I don't know how that is, Flix, and we haven't time to investigate the matter.
"Fifteen feet; that looks more like it. There ought to be about three feet ebb and flow here, and your sounding gave about double that, Flix." "It was the fault of the rock on the bottom, Captain;" but the leadsman heaved the line all around the steamer with the same result.
The story of the poor girl of Pornic, as Browning in a letter calls her, attracted him partly because it presented a psychological curiosity, partly because he cared to paint her hair in words, gold in contrast with that pallid face as much as his friend Rossetti might have wished to display a like splendour with the strokes of his brush: Hair such a wonder of flix and floss, Freshness and fragrance floods of it too!
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