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Captain Hoppner and the other officers were, therefore, of opinion that an absolute necessity existed for abandoning the Fury.
The plump little barmaid had made him what she called, "A man's drink," while me she had served contemptuously with a ginger ale. Hoppner boasted of his exploits. I, of mine. "I tell you what, Gregory, since we're both jumping ship here, let's be pals for awhile and travel together." "I'm with you, Hoppner." "And why jump off empty-handed, since we are jumping off?"
He wondered why. He had not failed in flow of gracious words to Nellie O'Mora. Well, a miniature by Hoppner was one thing, a landlady's live daughter was another. At any rate, he must prime himself with food. He wished Mrs. Batch had sent up something more calorific than cold salmon. He asked her daughter what was to follow. "There's a pigeon-pie, your Grace." "Cold?
Hoppner turned to his friends. 'You have always seen me,'he said, 'in good company, and playing the courtier, and taken me, I daresay, for a deuced well-bred fellow, and genteel withal. All a mistake.
James's and Windsor, while Hoppner, limner to the court of a gallant young prince, who loved mirth and wine, the sound of the lute and the music of ladies' feet in the dance, should to some of its gayest and giddiest ornaments give the simplicity of manner and purity of style which pertained to the Quaker like sobriety of the other.
With the Hecla this succeeded, but the Fury, being much farther from the shore, soon began to move out with the whole body of ice, which, carrying her close to the large berg off the point, swept her round the latter, where, after great exertion, Captain Hoppner succeeded in getting clear, and then made sail to beat back to us.
In September Byron entered into negotiations, afterwards completed, for renting a country house among the Euganean hills near Este, from Mr. Hoppner, the English Consul at Venice, who bears frequent testimony to his kindness and courtesy.
The only pleasure of fame is, that it paves the way to pleasure, and the more intellectual the better for the pleasure and us too. It is clear that Mr. Hoppner, 'portrait-painter to the Prince of Wales, had no mean opponent in Mr. Lawrence, 'portrait-painter in ordinary to His Majesty. For a time the rivalry was continued in a spirit of much moderation.
Having allowed the officers and men an hour for packing up their clothes, and what else belonging to them the water in the ship had not covered, the Fury’s boats were hauled up on the beach, and at two A.M. I left her, and was followed by Captain Hoppner, Lieutenant Austin, and the last of the people in half an hour after.
She was a great-bodied, jolly Irishwoman, but she possessed razor-keen, hazel eyes that narrowed on us a bit when she first saw us. But the woman in her soon hushed her passing suspicions. For Hoppner was a frank-faced, handsome lad, with wide shoulders and a small waist like a girl's. It was Hoppner's good looks took her in. She gave us a room together.
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