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"No, Tom; we're getting our share of it. I wouldn't mind if Mr Howlett was here to have his taste." "My! how you can crow over him, sir, when we get back, eh?" "Let's get back first, Tom." "Oh, we'll do that, sir, never you fear. That ain't what I'm scared about." "Then what is?"
The mission of this cutter was almost an exact repetition of the one in which Mark took part, Bob Howlett having the luck to seize the second drowning man, over whose body the boathook had slipped. "And no wonder," growled the coxswain afterwards. "He'd got on no duds, and I didn't want to stick the hook into his flesh."
"I'm very sorry, of course. We did all we could to save the poor fellows, but they died, and there's an end of them. I don't feel bound to be miserable because the doctor couldn't save them." Mark's brow contracted a little. He felt that he did not like Bob Howlett half so well as of old, but that perhaps he had been too hard in calling him brutally cynical, and he spoke more gently now.
There we came to an anchor close to the shore, and were able to refit much more rapidly than we could have done in any other place. Our crew generally laboured away from sunrise to sunset without complaining. But Howlett and Trinder grumbled at the additional work they had to perform.
And made the water ripple round the ship, Bob Howlett afterwards declared. But five minutes after, when he was down with Mark in the middies' berth, while the hero of the evening sat hot and quivering in every nerve, Bob uttered a contemptuous snort. "Oh!" he cried, "what a jolly shame!" Mark stared. "You do get all the crumb, old chap. All that fuss over a fellow with a head of hair like yours!"
Think I'd come and ask you to do this if I didn't feel what a plucky young orficer you are? Why, the lads'll follow you anywheres. They like Mr Howlett, too, but do you think they'd follow him like they do you? Not they, sir." "It's very tempting," said Mark, hesitating. "Tempting, sir?
The plague, I hear, encreases in the towne much, and exceedingly in the country everywhere. Thence walked to Westminster Hall, and after a little stay, there being nothing now left to keep me there, Betty Howlett being gone, I took coach and away home, in my way asking in two or three places the worth of pearles, I being now come to the time that I have long ago promised my wife a necklace.
12th. Up, and with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen to St. James's by water, and there did our usual business with the Duke of Yorke. Thence I to Westminster, and there, spoke with Michell and Howlett, who tell me how their poor young ones are going to Shadwell's. The latter told me of the unkindness of the young man to his wife, which is now over, and I have promised to appear a counsellor to him.
It would be brighter and better for him to see the men about." "Thank you, sir," cried Mark, with a smile full of gratitude. "Oh, that's different," said the doctor. "Well, after a few days I'll have him carried up." "Yes," said the first lieutenant, "and he can lie there and hatch mischief along with Mr Howlett, and play with the monkey. Nice trio." "Eh?
Coventry's not being with us. So up and to supper with Sir W. Batten upon a soused mullett, very good meat, and so home and to bed. 24th. So to Westminster Hall, and there at Mrs. Michell's shop sent for beer and sugar and drink, and made great cheer with it among her and Mrs. Howlett, her neighbour, and their daughters, especially Mrs.
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