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Mr Digby, from a wound in his right arm, which prevented him from using it, was unable to go; and so Sir Henry Elmore had command of the Gannet's boats, and True Blue went in his boat as his coxswain, Mr Nott, now a mate, accompanying him. Paul Pringle, the boatswain, had command of another boat, and a mate and midshipman of the Gannet had charge of the other two.
Upon being presented with this headgear, Con dutifully assumed it, and went about wearing it for a day or two in a depressed frame of mind. Then he appeared in the morning at the O'Driscolls', cheered, and crested with a remarkably long gannet's feather stuck upright in the crown of his cap, through which he had bored a hole to admit of the insertion.
To-day I find that I have not gained by it, as I hoped I should. Ignorance kills me. I really have courage to bear to hear just at this moment I have. 'There's no bad news, my love, said the earl. 'High fever, is it? 'The usual fever. Gannet's with him. I sent for Gannet to go there, to satisfy you. 'Nevil is not dead? 'Lord! ma'am, my dear soul! 'He is alive?
Devereux to endeavour to combat a system that threatened consequences worse than those it was planned to avert. He by this time was aware of the serious character of the malady which had prostrated Nevil. Lord Romfrey had directed his own medical man to go down to Bevisham, and Dr. Gannet's report of Nevil was grave.
The god Hermes descending on Ogygia if you could imagine that, you had Uncle Harry the shoot outwards, the delicate curve to a straight slant, heels rising above rigid body while you counted, begad! holding your breath. Then the plumb drop, like a gannet's " Dicky listened, glorious vistas opening before him.
Her eternal brooding over Nevil was the cause of these mental vagaries. Lord Romfrey was for postponing the appointed discussion in the morning after breakfast. He pleaded business engagements. 'None so urgent as this of mine, said Rosamund. 'But we have excellent news of Nevil: you have Gannet's word for it, he argued. 'There's really nothing to distress you.
So now Perkins was a sergeant in the secret service; and just as the carpenters were hammering nails as at home, and the surgeons were cutting flesh as at home, so Perkins was "sleuthing" as at home. "Well, sergeant?" said the lieutenant. "What have you got?" "I think I've got the story, sir." You could see the relief in Gannet's face; and Jimmie's heart went down into his boots.
Just as she was doing so, she received the larger portion of another broadside. Thus the two ships ran on. Nothing could exceed the rapidity with which the Gannet's crew kept up their fire. For nearly two hours they had fought on. One man only had been wounded. What the casualties of the enemy were, they could not tell; but they had every reason to believe them severe.
Paul and his people had enough to do in shortening sail and getting their craft into a condition to meet the rising gale. Their strength, too, had been reduced in the action. The poor Dutchman was severely wounded, though, like a brave fellow, he insisted on keeping the deck, and so was one of the Gannet's men. With the next squall down came a thick pour of rain.
Her eternal brooding over Nevil was the cause of these mental vagaries. Lord Romfrey was for postponing the appointed discussion in the morning after breakfast. He pleaded business engagements. 'None so urgent as this of mine, said Rosamund. 'But we have excellent news of Nevil: you have Gannet's word for it, he argued. 'There's really nothing to distress you.
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