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Updated: June 14, 2025
You must send the boy to someone that'll teach en smithy-work. There's no sense in this cold hammering." "Wheelwright Hocken holds his shop and cottage from the Squire." "Why not put the boy to Mendarva the Smith, over to Benny Beneath? He's a first-rate workman." "That is more than six miles away." "No matter for that.
"Dismiss me you may, Captain Hocken, and this instant. I ask no less. It was bound to come. As my sister warned me, 'You was always high in the instep, from a child, and, says she, 'high insteps are out of place in the Reduced." "God bless the woman!" Cai laid down the paper and stared. "Who ever talked of dismissin' you?"
"What you don't seem to know though with any experience o' speakin' you'd understand well enough is that close upon the last moment all your thoughts fly, and specially if folks will keep chatterin': but when you stand up and open your mouth provided as nobody interrupts you . . ." "I declare! If it isn't Captain Hocken and Captain Hunken with him!"
Sure enough," said Cai. "I took him a hundred pounds to invest for me, about that time." "Did he pay you a dividend this last half-year?" "To be sure seven pound, eight-an'-four." "That was on the Saltypool," Fancy nodded. "And oh! Cap'n Hocken, I am so sorry! but that hundred pound o' yours is at the bottom of the sea."
Captain Cai swore inwardly as she insisted on brushing his coat, paying special attention to a dry spot of mud on the right hip-pocket. Feminine attentions may be overdone, and Mrs Bosenna showed more tactfulness than her maid. "Have finished, you silly woman! Cannot you see that Captain Hocken is dying to leave us? . . . But you are to bring your friend, sir, at the first opportunity!"
Mrs Bowldler, albeit much vexed in mind, deferred solving the problem, and was rewarded with good luck as procrastinators too often are in this world. Dinner-time arrived, but Captain Hocken did not. She served the goose whole and carried it in to Captain Hunken. "Eh?" said 'Bias, as she removed the cover. "What about about Cap'n Hocken?" "He have not arrove." 'Bias ground his teeth.
'Th' applause of listening Senates to command. "I divine your ambition. Captain Hocken, and I honour it," "So long as you don't mistake me," urged Cai nervously. "It don't go beyond a seat on the School Board at present. . . . But there was a hint dropped that you used, back-along, to give lessons in I forget the word." "Elocution," Mr Benny supplied it.
Accordingly the next morning, as the church clock struck ten, found him climbing the narrow ascent to On the Wall: where, at the garden gate, he encountered Mr Philp in the act of leaving the house with a bulging carpet-bag. "Eh? Good mornin', Mr Philp." "Good mornin' to you, Cap'n Hocken." Mr Philp was hurrying by, but his besetting temptation held him to a halt.
"Please be seated, Captain Hocken," said Mrs Bosenna, covering inward merriment with the demurest of smiles. "You shall tell me your business later on that's to say, if there's no pressing hurry about it?" "There's no pressin hurry," admitted Cai. "It's important, though, in a way important to me; and any ways more important than smokin' a pipe an' watchin' you play parlour games."
Mr Widger of Callington, Mr Sam Nicholls of St Neot Captain Hocken." Cai's cheeks in rosiness emulated those of the two men with whom he shook hands. "Captain Hocken," she explained to them, "takes a great interest in education." For a moment it struck Cai that the pair, on hearing this, eyed him suspiciously; but his brain was in a whirl, and he might easily have been mistaken.
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