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"Where they prepar'd A rotten carcase of a butt not rigg'd, Nor tackle, sail, nor mast, the very rats Instinctively have quit it." Adding, that in both changes he is supported by the corrector of the folio, 1632. Hanmer gives the passage exactly as the latter, and as Rowe does. We now come to the stage-directions in the folio, to which Mr. Collier gives, I think, a most exaggerated value.
A strong blanket was ready, and Captains Carvil, Fitzherbert, Hanmer, and Rodney, led by Captain Ouseley and assisted by as many others as could find room, seizing the sides, in a very few moments Mr. Mayor was revolving and bumping, rising and falling, as though he were no weight at all.
"Going to sea, is he? Well, on the whole Oliver couldn't do better. The boy's position here must be undesirable in many ways; and at sea a lad stands on his own feet eh, Mr. I did not catch your name?" "Hanmer, ma'am." "Well, and isn't it so?" "Not altogether, ma'am," stammered Mr. Hanmer. "If ever your ladyship had been in the Navy " "God bless the man!" Lady Caroline interjected.
A strong blanket was ready, and Captains Carvil, Fitzherbert, Hanmer, and Rodney, led by Captain Ouseley and assisted by as many others as could find room, seizing the sides, in a very few moments Mr. Mayor was revolving and bumping, rising and falling, as though he were no weight at all. This public degradation was too much to be borne without substantial redress.
"Your father would call it setting a bad example, I doubt?" To this the boy, had he been less loyal, might have answered that his father took no great stock in examples, bad or good. He said: "Papa smokes. He says it is cleaner than taking snuff; and so it is, if you have ever seen Mr. Silk's waistcoat." So Mr. Hanmer filled and lit his pipe, doing wonders with a pocket tinder-box.
Is it too late for partridge? . . . One forgets the time of year, down in the islands." Strangely enough Mr. Hanmer, so shy by habit, offered but a slight resistance. It was Dicky who, as Ruth sped to him with a happy little cry, hung on his heel a moment and blushed violently. She took him in her arms, exclaiming at his growth. "Why look, Tatty 'tis a man! And is that what he means?
The question, and the sight of the lieutenant's mental distress, set Mrs. Harry laughing again. "In seamanship only. Mr. Hanmer is my husband's second-in-command and one of the best officers in the Navy." "I consider smoking a filthy habit," said Lady Caroline. "Yes, ma'am," murmured Mr. Hanmer. The odious eyeglass was turned upon Dicky again. He, to avoid it, glanced aside at Miss Diana.
This once again she told herself it must be in fancy that she heard it. For how should he be in Bath? She stepped quickly out through the porchway to assure herself. She stood there a moment, while her eyes accustomed themselves to the sunlight, and Captain Hanmer came towards her from the shadow of the colonnade by the great Pump-room.
Sally won't be coming ashore to-night; the hour's too late, she says; so I'm allowed an hour's liberty." Here the uxorious fellow paused on a laugh, indicating that he found irony in the word. "But Sally capital name, Sally, for a sailor's wife; she's Sarah to all her family, Sal to me Sally is cunning. Sally gives me leave ashore, but on condition I take Hanmer to look after me.
"A child of eight, and the country at war!" Mr. Hanmer muttered. "His father must know that we cruise ready for action." "I tell you, sir, what Dicky told me this morning." "But it's impossible!" "To that, sir, I might find you half a dozen answers. To begin with, we all know and Sir Oliver perhaps, from private information, knows better than any of us that peace is in sight.
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