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To cure this, he set to work and finished a large dial which he had long intended to present to the Corporation of Harwich, to set up over the town-gate. The Corporation accepted the gift and employed their clerk to write a letter of thanks. The language of this letter was so flattering that Captain Runacles made another dial for the Exchange.
"Well, we can't take you along with us, or we shall have to tell his Majesty the truth; which is something more improbable than I care to risk. Moreover, you've saved a comrade " "And many thanks for it, my lad," Dick added, shaking Tristram by the hand. "Therefore you're free to go. The question is, where you do want to go?" "Harwich." "Harwich is a long way; and you've lost your passport.
French brandy sells as well as Dutch Schiedam, and if I cannot get the one I may perhaps get the other; and there is less danger in coming to Dunkirk and making across to Harwich than there is in landing from Calais or Nantes on the south coast, where the revenue men are much more on the alert than they are at Harwich." "Are you not afraid of getting your boat captured? You said it was your own."
"We haven't heard anything about the line from Ipswich to Norwich, sir," he replied, "but we can't very well change our course without definite instructions." "Your definite instructions," Mr. Dunster reminded him drily, "were to take me to Harwich. You have been forced to depart from them. I see no harm in your adopting any suggestions I may have to make concerning our altered destination.
"I have heard 'twas for fear of the attentions of a widow in Harwich; but proceed." "After amassing a considerable fortune he died, sir, of a paralytical stroke, upon the 12th of November last." "I am sorry to hear it." "That was the common expression of Boston at the time.
Price was able to start for Harwich, via Brampton, very early the next morning. He was driving along through Northcutt's woods with one leg hanging over the wheel, humming through his nose what we may suppose to have been a love-ditty, and letting his imagination run riot about the lady in question, when he nearly fell out of his wagon.
"Since you have been so kind, sir," said the little hunchback politely, "perhaps you can do us another favour." "What is that?" "We have come across from Harwich for the purpose of seeking an audience with his Majesty, King William. Can you tell us when and where we are likely to find him?" "His Majesty is just now at the House in the Wood." "Where may that be?" "Not two miles beyond the town.
The thing must have been in train on this side for many months possibly for years. Here, for instance, is an extraordinary item, which is hardly likely to be only coincidence: Out of one hundred postmasters within a sixty-mile radius of Harwich, eighty-one have obtained their positions within the last two years, and of those sixty-nine bear names which indicate German nationality or extraction.
On a similar sweep further south, the Harwich light cruiser and destroyer force under Commodore Tyrwhitt sank by gunfire the mine layer Königin Luise, which a trawler had reported "throwing things overboard"; but the next morning, August 6, the cruiser Amphion, returning near the same position, was destroyed by two mines laid by her victim of the day before.
But she drew little water? The devil she did! All this I say knowing well that I shall soon put her up for sale; but that is neither here nor there. I shall not divulge her name. So we put to sea, intending to run to Harwich. There was a strong flood down the coast, and the wind was to the north of north-east.
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