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Give me your gripper, my dearie," she seized his wrist and bent back the palm of the hand to trace the lines with a dirty finger. "Good fortune comes to you and to her, my golden rye," she droned in true gypsy fashion. "Money, and peace, and honor, and many children, to carry on a stainless name.
Breakfast as soon as ever you like. Eggs, sausages, bacon, kidneys, marmalade, water-cresses, coffee, and so forth. My friend and I belong to the select few whom it's a perfect privilege to cook for. Voluptuaries, Mrs. Gripper, voluptuaries, both of us. You'll see," continued Allan, as they went on toward the stairs, "I shall make that worthy creature young again; I'm better than a doctor for Mrs.
"And the cruise of the Farewell under him that got lost in the Spitzbergen seas!" said Clifton. "He was the only man that came back," continued Gripper. "He and his dog," answered Clifton. "We won't die for his pleasure," added Pen. "Nor lose the bounty we've been at so much trouble to earn," cried Clifton.
"What the devil do you mean?" asked Gripper. "I know very well what I mean." "But we don't." "Well, Pen has quarrelled with him before." "With the captain?" "Yes, the dog-captain it's all one." The sailors looked at one another, afraid to say anything. "Man or dog," muttered Pen, "I declare that that animal will have his account one of these days."
Four men of great power and influence in the financial world had gathered in the offices of Scott & Rand, brokers, New York City. Of course, old Gripper Scott himself was one of the four. Two more were Sudbury Bragg and Warren Hatch. The fourth was a slender, smooth-faced, cold-eyed, thin-lipped man of uncertain age, whose name was Basil Jerome.
The four men left in the private room were settling down to business when the office boy appeared and announced that Mr. Bantry Hagan wished to speak with Mr. Scott at once on very important business. Old Gripper seldom betrayed astonishment, but he could not conceal it now. There was likewise indignation in his face and voice as he exclaimed: "Hagan? That man here?
Of the other sailors Garry and Bolton seemed to be the best; Bolton was a gay and talkative fellow; Garry was thirty-five, with an energetic face, but rather pale and sad-looking. The three sailors, Clifton, Gripper, and Pen, seemed less ardent and resolute; they easily grumbled. Gripper wanted to break his engagement even before the departure of the Forward; a sort of shame kept him on board.
They were confident and resolute men, energetically and solidly constituted. Of course they were not all equally vigorous; Shandon had even hesitated about taking some of them, such as the sailors Gripper and Garry, and the harpooner Simpson, because they looked rather thin; but, on the whole, their build was good; they were a warm-hearted lot, and their engagement was signed.
"It's through him we're in an iceberg," said Gripper. "He's the cause that we've had more ice against us than has ever been seen at this time of year," said Wolsten. "He's the cause of my bad eyes," said Brunton. "He's cut off the gin and brandy," added Pen. "He's the cause of everything," said the assembly, getting excited. "And he's captain into the bargain!" cried Clifton.
"That's certain!" replied Gripper. But when the fog cleared away it disclosed to the eyes of the commander an immense free and unexpected passage; it seemed to run away from the coast, and he therefore determined to seize such a favourable hazard. Men were placed on each side of the creek, hawsers were lowered down to them, and they began to tow the vessel in a northerly direction.
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