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"The mischief is," confessed Cai, "that I have had no practice in speakin'. I couldn't, as they say, make a public speech for nuts." "It is an art, Captain Hocken," said Mr Benny reassuringly, "and can be acquired.
"I am glad to make your acquaintance, Captain Hocken." "I hope I see you well, ma'am?" Captain Cai took the hand and dropped it nervously. "Quite well, I thank God. . . . They told me your ship had arrived, sir; but I could not count could I? on your coming to inspect the house so soon." "If I've been over hasty, ma'am " "Not at all," she interrupted. "There now! I put things so clumsily at times!
The barber, without turning, nodded towards the newcomer as he entered a short man, aged about sixty, with a square-cut grey beard, sanguine complexion, and blue eyes that twinkled with a deceptive appearance of humour. "Here's Cap'n Cai Hocken, home from sea." "Eh? I am very glad to see you, Cap'n Hocken," said Mr Philp politely. "There's a post-card waitin' for you, up at the Office."
"Eh? . . . There's no risk in that. You may say what you like of Captain Hocken or of Captain Hunken: but they're honest as children. The money's as safe with them as in the bank." "Well, it do seem to me a dashin' and yet a very cold-blooded way of choosin' a man. Now, if I was taken with one " "Well?" prompted Mrs Bosenna, as Dinah paused. "Call me weak, but I couldn't help it.
I have no delight in this world, and I hope to enter the world of glory, through the merit of the death of Christ." He became gradually more and more feeble, and for many weeks before he died was blind and nearly deaf. Mr Haigh, who was then at Goobbe, gives the following account: "On Saturday evening I went with Mr and Mrs Hocken to see Daniel. We found him sleeping on a mattress.
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"Why, of course I will," instantly responded Mr Benny, pushing his translations of the 'Fasti' aside and producing from a drawer some sheets of fresh paper. "As a matter of business, you understand?" "If you insist; though it will be a pleasure, Captain Hocken, I assure you." "It's it's a bit difficult," stammered Cai gratefully. "In fact, it's not an ordinary sort of letter at all."
He, likewise, had cast coat and waistcoat aside: his hat he had entrusted to an unknown backer. He saw nothing, as he came, but the line of the furrow he prayed to achieve. "Captain Hocken!" She stepped forward hardily, holding up a hand, and Cai's team, too, came to a halt as if ashamed. "What what is the meaning of this foolishness?"
She sighed, and added, "Besides, 'twould be more proper. We mustn't set people talking eh, Captain Hocken?" She appealed to him with a laugh. "Cai won't be here," announced 'Bias heavily. "Who said so?" demanded Cai. "'Said so yourself, not twenty minutes ago. . . . 'Said you didn' know how the fireworks was ever goin' off without you, or words to that effect. I didn' make no comment at the time.
It has been suggested by several, so there's no need to mention names that I ought to go in for public life, in a small way, of course." "Indeed, Captain Hocken?" Mr Benny smiled to himself; he began to understand, or thought that he did. "A very laudable ambition, too!"
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