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"Cap'n Hunken had a small sum in the Saltypool a hundred pounds only." "I wonder he had a penny. 'Tisn't like 'Bias to put anything into an uninsured ship." "Mr Rogers did it without consultin' him. Cap'n Hunken didn' know, and I didn' know, for the money didn' pass by cheque.
"Dallying, sir, dallying with the Muses. That is all my business nowadays." "I looked in," said 'Bias, laying down his hat, "to ask if you would do me a small favour." "You may be sure of it, Captain Hunken: that is, if it should lie in my power." 'Bias nodded, somewhat mysteriously. "You bet it does: though, as one might say, it don't lie azackly inside the common. I want a letter written."
And may not a photograph of the famous arch constructed by Captains Hocken and Hunken be discovered therein some day by the curious? To be sure, Queen Victoria herself did not pass beneath that arch. But there passed beneath that arch many daughters who since have grown into women and done virtuously, I hope.
And they're livin' apart, you say?" "They didn't even breakfast together. But that was an accident, Captain Hunken having walked out early and taken the parrot." "Funny thing to take for a walk."
A nod, as they say, is as good as a wink to a blind horse; but Captain Hunken, being neither blind nor a horse, and anything so vulgar as winking out of the question, it may not altogether apply, though the result is the same."
"Eh? . . . There's no risk in that. You may say what you like of Captain Hocken or of Captain Hunken: but they're honest as children. The money's as safe with them as in the bank." "Well, it do seem to me a dashin' and yet a very cold-blooded way of choosin' a man. Now, if I was taken with one " "Well?" prompted Mrs Bosenna, as Dinah paused. "Call me weak, but I couldn't help it.
"Apparently you are willing to give it rather than let the purchase go," observed Mr Baker drily. "For aught you know both these gentlemen may be desiring it for a building site. Did I hear one of them say two-seventy-five? Captain er Hunken, if I caught the name?" "Two-eighty," persisted Cai. "Two-ninety!" "Well, make it three hundred, and I've done!" groaned Mr Middlecoat collapsing. "Three "
He rearranged the papers on his desk and resumed work upon the 'Fasti': "The hound beside the hare held consort in the shade, The hind, the lioness, upon the self-same rock, The too loquacious crow " Here some one knocked at the door. "Come in!" called Mr Benny. The door opened. The visitor was Captain Hunken. "Good mornin'." "Ah! Good morning, sir!" "Busy?"
But Cap'n Hunken it was: for to make certain I called and had a drink o' cider with Farmer Middlecoat, t'other side of the hill, an' he'd seen your friend frequent these last few weeks. . . . There now, you don't seem pleased about it! an' yet 'twould be a very good match for him, if it came off." Cai's head was whirling.
And the worst is that though Captain Hocken and Captain Hunken are a pair of fools and Mr Middlecoat a bigger fool than either as it turns out, I'm the biggest fool of all." "How, mistress?" "Why, you ninny! They were buying, one against the other, to make me a present, and I stepped in and saved young Middlecoat's face.
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