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He disappeared rather in a panic during a two-days' gale, in which he had the portholes of his cabin battened down, and remained in his cot reading the Washerwoman of Finchley Common, left on board the Ramchunder by the Right Honourable the Lady Emily Hornblower, wife of the Rev.
He leaned back comfortably in his chair, and half closing his eyes as in dreamy reminiscence, said, slowly: "Your reply, Mr. Hotchkiss, reminds me of er sing'lar circumstances that er occurred, in point of fact at the St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans. Pinkey Hornblower personal friend invited Senator Doolittle to join him in social glass. Received, sing'larly enough, reply similar to yours.
This, one of the Squire's sons charged to the ingenuity, and, as he set forth without fear or trembling, stealing propensities of one skipper Hornblower, who at this time sailed a saucy-looking craft called the 'Virtue of Cape Cod. This Hornblower was one of the independent school, cared not seven coppers for anybody, nor had the most virtuous respect for the nets of his neighbours; he looked the pink-perfection of a Cape Cod fisherman.
Persis, laying down her work as the clock struck twelve, had no reply to make, and Robert Hornblower, whose punctuality at meals was notable, a characteristic shared by all henpecked husbands, entered the house at that moment, casting a quick glance at his wife's face as a sailor watches the sky for signs of a squall.
"'Had a good passage, eh, Hornblower? the prim collector used to ask, as he mounted the rail. "'Blowed like cannons, outside, last night! Seeing how we had just ballast in her, like to tipped her over, I'd say, bowing, keeping my hat in my hand, and doing the polite all up. "'Didn't have a chance to smuggle, according to that, eh? "'Yer honor knows Hornblower never does that sort of thing.
And then as if realizing the uselessness of such an attempt, he sighed heavily and sought consolation in the gravy. And Mrs. Hornblower demonstrated the sweeping character of her victory by saying plaintively: "Of course a woman always feels breaking off old associations the way a man can't understand. Robert laughs at me.
Hornblower was his uncompromising ally. Indeed his presence in Clematis at this juncture was due to a letter from this invaluable colleague, casually mentioning that her husband had received an offer for the farm which she wished he might be induced to accept. "While I leave all such matters for Robert to decide, as I consider to be a wife's plain duty," wrote Mrs.
"I've got a word to say to you, Lena," remarked the reconstructed Mr. Hornblower. "Women are all right when they keep their place. After this I want to have it understood I'm not going to have any interference in my business." He walked to the door and turned for a parting defiance. "Damned if I will." Mrs. Hornblower's attack of hysterics occupied Persis till noon.
Suddenly he realized that "father" and "mother" really meant father and mother people whom he had himself at home. He was very uncomfortable, and thought Rickie had been rather queer. He too tried to revert to Hornblower, but Ansell would not let him. The sun came out, and struck on the white ramparts of the dell. Rickie looked straight at it. Then he said abruptly "I think I want to talk."
"Are you out on the round-up again to-day, Dr. Hornblower?" asked Ned soberly. The Reverend Gabriel looked at him with a perplexed countenance. "I am afraid that I do not perfectly apprehend your meaning," he said.
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