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We've said enough about it for the present. I'll appeal to Mr. Grimshaw's feelings, when I get to the city; and I know, if he's a man, he'll let Manuel stay on board, if I pledge my honor that he won't leave the craft." "Humph! If you knew him as well as I do, you'd save your own feelings. His sympathies don't run that way," said the pilot.
This drew out the story of Conway's harsh treatment of the smaller boys. As Binny related the wrongs of his playfellows, saying very little of his own grievances, I noticed that Mr. Grimshaw's hand, unknown to himself perhaps, rested lightly from time to time on Wallace's sunny hair. The examination finished, Mr.
Putting her cheek against Grimshaw's arm, she listened to him with a curious patience as one listens to the eloquence of the sea. "This is no place for thee," he said to her. "Leave me now, ma petite." But she laughed and went with him. Imagine that room foul air, sanded floor, kerosene lamps, an odour of bad wine, tobacco, and stale humanity.
Of course I went, with a very clear vision of the future of Dagmar, Lady Cooper, to occupy my thoughts during that lurching drive through the slippery streets. I knew that she was at Broadenham, holding up her head in seclusion. Grimshaw's house was one of a row of red brick buildings not far from the river. Doctor Waram himself opened the door to me.
It is my maiden effort in a difficult art, and is, perhaps, lacking in those graces of thought and style which are reached only after the severest practice. Every Wednesday morning, on entering school, each pupil was expected to lay his exercise on Mr. Grimshaw's desk; the subject was usually selected by Mr. Grimshaw himself, the Monday previous.
"Wait a minute," he said. "Did he tell you his name?" "No, sir," returned Winters. "But I'll find out." In a moment he was back. "Captain Rufus Hamilton, he says." The petulant expression on Grimshaw's face changed instantly to one of pleasure. "Bring him right in," he ordered. Drew, thinking that Grimshaw would wish to see his friend alone, rose to follow Winters.
Men had been detailed for the pumps as soon as the flood-tide made, and the Captain retired to his berth. It seemed there was a mutual understanding between the pilots and officers in regard to the arrival of colored stewards; and the pilot, after leaving the vessel, went directly to Mr. Grimshaw's office and reported a nut for him to crack: this brought him to the wharf to "look around."
At that moment Tyke Grimshaw's face appeared at the doorway. "How are you making it, Allen?" he questioned. "First rate," was the answer. The young man was rather put out over the interruption, yet he could not help but remember what Grimshaw had done for him and he gave the old man a warm look of gratitude. "We're going to have some rough sailing for a little while," announced Grimshaw.
"Simonetta," he said, "you are no better than the rest." She sobbed, ran over to him, and went down on her knees, twisting her arms about his waist. There was a look of distaste in Grimshaw's eyes; he stared into her distraught face a moment, then he freed himself from her arms and got to his feet. "I think I'll telephone to Dagmar," he said. But Waram shook his head. "I'll do that.
Grimshaw's insincerity so well, and that, instead of being liberal, he pocketed a large amount of the fees, to the very conscientious benefit of his own dear self. The reader must remember that in Charleston, South Carolina, there is a large majority of men who care little for law, less for justice, and nothing for Christianity.
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