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"Oh, he's wytin' for you." She nodded, lifting a shrill voice. "Garge, O Garge! 'Ere's that Yankee." With a bare red elbow she indicated the further end of the room. "You'll find 'im down there," she said, her look not unkindly. Amber thanked her quietly and, extricating himself from the press round the bar, made his way in the direction indicated.
"If a reformed rake makes a good husband, sure it's she will have the fine chance with Garge," Mrs. O'Dowd remarked to Posky, who had lost her position as bride in the regiment, and was quite angry with the usurper. And as for Mrs. Kirk: that disciple of Dr.
There was the splutter of a match, and as it flared up Barrant saw a pair of twinkling grey eyes regarding him from a brown and rugged face. "Old Garge never reckons on haavin' passengers back by th' laast wagonette, so 'e never lights up inside. I'll make a light now, then we'll be more comfortable."
'Yes, Garge, my faithful friend sarve me in the back with two fut o carvin-knife, while I was chattin with Garge's pals. "At that Fat George snatches the musket and pulls. "I heard the click of the hammer, but there was never so much as a flash in a pan. "'Thank you, thank you, Fatty, my friend, says the French feller. 'But you know you'd make better shooting, if I hadn't wetted your priming.
And you, madam, keep up your spirits about Mr Hubert; for I'll warrant that Garge, here, 'll have mun out o' Spanish prison in next to no time." George was up and stirring betimes on the following morning, and, after an early breakfast, set out for Mr Radlett's shipyard at Millbay.
I was waitin' at the crass-roads for old Garge to come along, when a young womon came up out of th' darkness and stood not far from me just by the ol' crass. I tried to maake out who she was, but it was too daark.
Like a good boy, Garge waited until the two Spanishers had left the church, and then comed straight down aboard and told me what he'd heard. At first I didn't put very much faith in the yarn, I'll own to't, but that there Garge so pestered and worrited me that at last I let mun have mun's way; and ten minutes afore midnight the Bonaventure was under way and standin' out o' the harbour.
But that stupid old fule Garge pulled up as usual and bawls through the window, 'Are you going to keep me here all night, Peter? Before I could say a word the young womon says: 'I'll get out here. With that she puts the fare into his hand through the open window, and slips out afore I knew what she was going to do.
As he came abruptly to a halt, staring at the great bows that towered high above him, resplendent in all the glory of fresh paint and surmounted by a finely carved figure of an unknown animal with the head of a lion, the horns of a bull, the body of a fish, four legs shaped like those of an eagle, and the wings of a dragon, old Radlett nudged him in the ribs and, beaming happily upon him, remarked: "There a be, Garge; that's the Nonsuch.
Now, there be Garge," he continued, lowering his tone. "'Tis true that he be but a lad; but he'm a sailor to the tips of his fingers; he'm so good a seaman and navigator as I be; he've a-got coolness and courage when they be most needed; he knoweth how to handle a crew; he've got the gift of tongues; and he'm a gentleman, which is a danged sight more than I be.
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