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"I shall carry the mark with me to my grave," added the captain, as a further inducement to him to reply. "I hope that you'll carry it a long time," said the harbour-master, gracefully. "Here, look here, Hall!" expostulated captain number two, starting up. "It's all right, Cooper," said Nugent. "It's all right," said captain number one, and in a rash moment undertook to explain.
An hour afterwards, Fastidio returned with all his performers, and my surprise may be imagined when amongst them I recognized Petronio and his sister Marina, who, the moment she saw me, screamed for joy, jumped over the grating, and threw herself in my arms. A terrible hubbub followed, and high words passed between Fastidio and the harbour-master.
"I shall carry the mark with me to my grave," added the captain, as a further inducement to him to reply. "I hope that you'll carry it a long time," said the harbour-master, gracefully. "Here, look here, Hall!" expostulated captain number two, starting up. "It's all right, Cooper," said Nugent. "It's all right," said captain number one, and in a rash moment undertook to explain.
Here," continues the narrative, "the harbour-master, who had never seen a steam-vessel before, was as much struck with astonishment, when he boarded the Thames, as a child is on getting possession of a new plaything. He steered the vessel, and we passed round several ships of war in the sound.
On the after-deck stood the emigrants for Kimberley, the Quarks from Glen Rushen, and some of the young Gills from Castletown stalwart lads, bearing themselves bravely in the midst of a circle of their friends, who talked and laughed to make them forget they were on the point of going. Pete and Phil came up the quay, and were received by a shout of incredulity from Quayle, the harbour-master.
We left the ship as soon as possible, and in about an hour we had taken forty-three tons of coal on board and nearly twenty tons of water. The work was rapidly performed by coolies. It was a great disappointment to be told by the harbour-master that the Governor of the Straits Settlement and Lady Jervoise were to leave at eleven o'clock for Johore.
This emphatic He was the supreme authority, the Marine Superintendent, the Harbour-Master a very great person in the eyes of every single quill-driver in the room. But that was nothing to the opinion he had of his own greatness. If he did not actually rule the waves, he pretended to rule the fate of the mortals whose lives were cast upon the waters.
Then, feeling all the madness and the doom of Cain upon him, Eric rushed back over the rocks, heedless of the danger and eager only for one thing to be amongst other people whose living noises would shut out that last cry which seemed to ring still in his ears. When he regained the Flagstaff Rock the men surrounded him, and through the fury of the storm he heard the harbour-master say:
The sleeping city awakened by enchantment. Natives appeared upon all sides, hailing each other with the magic cry "Ehippy" ship; the Queen stepped forth on her verandah, shading her eyes under a hand that was a miracle of the fine art of tattooing; the commandant broke from his domestic convicts and ran into the residency for his glass; the harbour-master, who was also the gaoler, came speeding down the Prison Hill; the seventeen brown Kanakas and the French boatswain's mate, that make up the complement of the war-schooner, crowded on the forward deck; and the various English, Americans, Germans, Poles, Corsicans and Scots the merchants and the clerks of Tai-o-hae deserted their places of business, and gathered, according to invariable custom, on the road before the club.
'As requested by your crew, Cap'n. 'That's very polite o' them and o' you, and o' the harbour-master, said I; 'and I wish you the compliments o' the season. For I liked the looks of him there, smiling up in an obliging way, and Plymouth bells behind him all sounding to Church together for Christmas.
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