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"Oh, Lord! no, nothing of that kind." And Almont's inflection suggested that the very idea of such a thing caused him pain. Hilbert Torrington pursed his lips and stared at the ceiling. "What does a dog rose suggest to you, Cassis?" "A silly interruption," replied that gentleman sourly.
The rest of the company felt very much as Hilbert did about their losses and disappointments, though the etiquette of gambling, which they understood better than he, forbade their expressing their feelings so freely.
Doran opened the door and announced Nugent Cassis. That meant that all over the town clocks would be striking eleven. "Any news?" he rapped out. "None." "But there wouldn't be," said Cranbourne. "He promised to send a message when he was nearing home. It's time he was here." The little man was plainly agitated. Hilbert Torrington smiled at him over the carefully arranged playing cards.
As for Hilbert, who had set off from the smoke pipe deck at the same time with Jennie, and in an equally eager manner, his going below had been with an entirely different intent from hers. He was going to get his bow and arrows, in order to shoot the little bird. He found them on the seat where he had left them.
Now, before going any farther, I wish to warn all such readers, that they will not be able to comprehend at all clearly the complicated difficulties which Hilbert and the others got into in respect to the lottery without understanding all that has been explained in the preceding pages of this chapter.
And here, I suppose, is the place where those sagacious children, who, when they are reading a book in which entertainment and instruction are combined, always skip all the instruction, and read only the story, will begin to read again, after having turned over the leaves of this chapter thus far, seeing they contain only explanations of the mode of navigating a ship, and saying nothing about Hilbert and Rollo.
"Perhaps you would like to answer this young lady?" asked Mr. Torrington. But Van Diest only shrugged his shoulders. Isabel ran to the window. "And there down there," she pointed to the street below, "there are more. What does it mean?" The sound of her cries brought the others hurrying into the room. "What is it now?" demanded Cassis. But Hilbert Torrington was at the telephone.
Sailors will never allow any one to molest or harm in any way the birds that alight upon their ships at sea. "Overboard!" repeated Hilbert, in a tone of contempt and defiance. "You would not dare to do such a thing." So saying, he went on adjusting his arrow, and, creeping up toward the bird, began to take aim.
"No," said Hilbert, "I had not been doing any thing at all." "Then you were going to do some mischief with them, I suppose," said his father. "No," said Hilbert, "I was only going to shoot a little bird." "A little bird!" repeated his father, surprised. "What little bird?" "Why, a little bird that came on board from Nova Scotia, they said," replied Hilbert. "He came to rest."
Hilbert held it up so that the Colonel could see the number upon it. "Sixty-seven," said the Colonel. "That is not worth much. Nobody thinks she'll go less than 270. However," he added, in a careless tone, "I'll give you twelve shillings for it. "Would you?" said Hilbert, turning to Rollo. "I don't know," replied Rollo, shaking his head. "I don't know any thing about it."
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