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Zeb answered it with a point-blank stare of bewilderment. The others took no notice of it whatever. "Hav'ee seen her, Zeb?" called out his father. "No." "Nor I nuther. 'Reckon 'tis all over a'ready. I've a-heard afore now," he went on, turning his back to the wind the better to wink at the company, "that 'tis lucky for some folks Gauger Hocken hain't extra spry 'pon his pins.
Young Mr Benny smiled with a smile that deprecated his being drawn into criticism. "We keep ahead of the Germans yet, sir, in some respects. Is it Captain Hocken I have the pleasure of addressin'?" "Now, how did he know that?" Captain Cai murmured. "Why, by your hat," answered Mr Philp with readiness. "You'll be wanting something more nautical, Captain?
But the nose, the poor nose, which puts itself forward above all other parts, which distinguishes us unhappy men from all brutes, in whom mouth and snout meet in such friendly union, and which in man is made, like the Hocken and the Blocksberg, the place for all witches and evil spirits to hold their revels: is it not in most men, merely on account of the cold air and a catarrh, turned into a cave of Æolus, and hauled, pulled, stretched and touzled, till it becomes a sounding horn and a battle-trumpet?
"Captain Hocken? . . . Oh, yes! the mistress was within at this moment and entertaining a visitor. . . . Oh, indeed, no! there was no reason at all" she turned, quick about, and he found himself following her and found himself, before he could protest, at the parlour door, which she flung open, announcing "Captain Hocken to see you, ma'am!"
Still it may influence what I will call, Captain Hocken, the style of the approach. Style, sir, has been defined by my brother, Mr Joshua Benny You may have heard of him, by the way, as being prominently connected with the London press. . . . No? A man of remarkable talent, though I say it.
All I say now is, if Mrs Bosenna comes here to see fireworks, she'll expect 'em to go off: an' I leave it at that." But about takin' a hand myself, I've changed my mind." "Indeed, Captain Hocken, I hope you'll not desert the party," said Mrs Bosenna prettily, and laughed again. "Do you know that, having made so bold I've a mind to make bolder yet, and pretend I am entertaining you to-morrow.
Like Hocken's ducks, all of 'ee never happy unless you be where you baint. . . . I wonder if that Hocken was any relation S-sh! now! Talk of the devil!" Captain Cai and Fancy had spent a good hour-and-a-half in overhauling the two cottages. Their accommodation was narrow enough, but Captain Cai, after half a lifetime on shipboard, found them little short of palatial.
"That's a cert, Cap'n Hocken, an' your hat put me in mind of it." "Oh, 'tis my hat you're meanin'? What's wrong with it?" "Did I say there was anything wrong? No, I didn't God forbid! An' no doubt," concluded Mr Philp cheerfully, "the fashions'll work round to it again." "I'll change it for another." "You won't find that too easy, will you?"
It was uttered in full hearing of some ten or twelve spectators, mostly townsmen of Troy; and these, turning their heads, for a moment not believing their ears, stared speechlessly at the two men whose friendship had in six months passed into a local byword. Cap'n Hocken and Gap'n Hunken what, quarrelling? No, no nonsense: it must be their fun! But the faces of the pair told a different tale.
"Which, having been detained, we might make an 'igh tea of it," she suggested, "and venture on the wing of a goose. Stuffing at this hour I would 'ardly 'int at, being onion and apt to recur." But Captain Hocken desired no more than tea and toast. Mrs Bowldler was intelligently sympathetic, because Fancy had called early in the afternoon and brought some enlightenment.
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