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Updated: May 12, 2025
"Perhaps you are right, sweet cousin! Anyhow we can't be both wrong, which is a comfort." "May I ask what is the heart-trouble you complain of?" said Lizzie. "Love and hatred," replied Gildart with a sigh and a frown. "Indeed! Is the name of the beloved object a secret?" It is Haco Barepoles." "The mad skipper!" exclaimed Lizzie in surprise. "I thought he was the most amiable man in existence.
"Yes, on the present occasion I am," replied Gildart; "discord suits my taste just now, and noise is pleasant to my ear." The band ceased to play at that moment, and Gildart, stepping up to the man who appeared to be the leader, inasmuch as he performed on the clarionet, asked him to turn aside with him for a few minutes. The man obeyed with a look of surprise, not unmingled with suspicion.
"Captain Bingley," said Kenneth, entering my study somewhat hastily on the following morning, "I am going to carry off Gildart for the day to have a ride with me, and I looked in on you in passing to tell you that Haco has arrived in his schooner, and that he is going to sail this evening for London and will take your Russians to their consul if you wish it."
"You seem very fond of your horse," said Lizzie, as Kenneth vaulted into the saddle. "I love him," replied the youth enthusiastically. "You love other creatures besides horses," thought I; but the thought had barely passed through my brain when Lizzie went off like an arrow. Kenneth sprang forward like a thunderbolt, and Gildart followed if I may so speak like a zig-zag cracker.
The only thing I an't sure of is whether the repairs is to be done here or in Athenbury." "The letter from Mr Stuart may bear on that point," suggested Gildart. "True," replied the skipper, opening the letter. "Ha! sure enough the repairs is to be done there, so I'll have to cut my visit to Cove short by four days."
Instantly the first bar of the Banging-Smash Polka burst from beneath the bed with such startling suddenness and energy that Gildart was himself rendered almost breathless. Haco awoke with a yell so dreadful that the brass band stopped for a single instant, but it burst forth again with a degree of fury that almost rent the trombone in twain!
"You're quite mistaken," said Gildart, who went on to speak so highly of the groom, that Haco, if not made to change his opinion, was so much impressed as to agree at least to take the whole subject once again into consideration. "Another thing I wish you to do, skipper, which is to give me a passage in your sloop to Athenbury.
Miss Puff sniggered again, and continued to do so until her puffy face and neck became extremely pink and dangerously inflated, insomuch that Gildart asked her somewhat abruptly what in the world she was laughing at.
"Hearty, old fellow, and happy to see my ancient chum. How d'ye do, Miss Penelope? How are ye, Mr Stuart?" My son Gildart had been Kenneth's favourite companion when they were boys at school. They had not met for many years.
"I confess that you've won it, lad, so now I'll have another pipe." He proceeded to fill the German pipe, and stirred up the fire while the band made good its retreat. Gildart paid the clarionet the stipulated sum of twenty shillings outside the door, after which he returned and seated himself beside the mad skipper.
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