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"Got your letter last night, Jim," said he, "and I can tell you it took a weight off my mind. Since I've been sick I've nigh fretted myself to death about Tarpaulin." He groaned, and shifted himself painfully in his chair. "Those twinges take me unexpected," he explained. "You see," returning to his subject, "all my gear's on the island, besides those fifty sheep.
It was one of those critical moments whose importance no one can gauge until after the time for guaging is past. However, as it fell out, it was the master who spoke first. "Very sorry, sir, indeed," he began, with a curiously uneasy and hang-dog expression. "The gear's broke down again in another place. Couldn't possibly have been foreseen, sir.
His spirits always rose with anything, good or bad, which occasioned tumult, and he continued frisking, hopping, dancing, and singing the burden of an old ballad 'Our gear's a' gane, until, happening to pass too near the Bailie, he received an admonitory hint from his horse-whip, which converted his songs into lamentation.
"If ye don't mind, cap'n," interrupted Peth, "I'd not want to bunk with the old man. I got to be up and around nights." "All right," said Jarrow. "There are two bunks in Mr. Trask's room here. Maybe you wouldn't find it out of the way if Mr. Peth took the lower?" "Not at all," said Trask. "I'll sleep soundly enough." "My gear's in there now," said Peth, and he went out on deck.
But that he is vigorously laboring with himself to control his temper is very evident, and it is equally evident, so at least the Deacon says, that he is gaining a victory in this life-campaign. "It is very clear," said I to myself, as I walked along, "that there are some good points in Mr. Gear's character.
Besides, her steerin' gear's broke," answered Zeb, without moving his eyes. This Gaffer's Rock was the extreme point of the opposite arm of the cove a sharp tooth rising ten feet or more above high-water mark. As the little schooner came tearing abreast of it, a huge sea caught her broadside, and lifted as if to fling her high and dry.
I even waited for Mr. Gear's coming. I saw him enter. I took that chapter of Acts-which God seemed to give me at the moment-partly that I might lead him on to fulfil the purpose which I fully believed had brought him there. While you were singing, I was praying. And when the hymn and the prayer were ended together, I knew God would not let him go away unblest."
He cast his eyes hastily round, as if looking for a place of concealment; then said to me, "Lend me your pistols yet it's no matter, I can do without them Whatever you see, take no heed, and do not mix your hand in another man's feud This gear's mine, and I must manage it as I dow; but I have been as hard bested, and worse, than I am even now."
His spirits always rose with anything, good or bad, which occasioned tumult, and he continued frisking, hopping, dancing, and singing the burden of an old ballad 'Our gear's a' gane, until, happening to pass too near the Bailie, he received an admonitory hint from his horse-whip, which converted his songs into lamentation.
The Highland turnkey, with as much delay as possible, undid the fastenings, my guide sprang up the stair, and into Owen's apartment. He cast his eyes around, and then said to me, "Lend me your pistols. Yet, no, I can do without them. Whatever you see, take no heed, and do not mix your hand in another man's feud. This gear's mine, and I must manage it as best I can.
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