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Impropriety, in the sense of indelicacy, is out of the question in a a communication of this kind. Strict appropriateness, on the other hand, is not always easy to capture. May I take it that your friend has er enjoyed a seafaring past?" Cai gazed blankly at him for a short while, and broke into a simple hearty laugh. "Why, of course," said he, "you're thinking of my friend 'Bias Hunken!
Mrs Bosenna, though quite at a loss to explain it, grasped the situation in less than a moment. She followed up 'Bias, keeping wide and running yet not seeming to hasten over the unbroken ground to the left. "Captain Hunken!" 'Bias, throwing all his weight back on the plough-tail, brought his team to a halt and looked around. He was bewildered, yet he recognised the voice.
"Which," explained Mrs Bowldler with a glance at Palmerston, "I had to lodge a complaint with Captain Hocken yesterday relative to its conversation, and he must have spoken about it; for Captain Hunken went out at eight o'clock taking the bird with him, cage and all, and when he came back they were minus." Fancy pondered. "What did the parrot say?" she asked. "You mustn't ask, my dear.
Do you know," she added with admirable simplicity, "it has struck me once or twice of late that you and Captain Hunken are not the friends you were?" Still Cai stared, his face mantling with confusion. This woman was an enigma to him. Surely she must understand? Surely she must have received that brace of letters to which she evaded all allusion?
That, sir, is the very question I put to Captain Hunken; and with all respect, sir, 'dammit' doesn't meet the case." "Perhaps not," agreed Captain Cai, but not with entire conviction. "It was all the answer Captain Hunken gave me, sir. 'Dammit, he says, 'Mrs Bowldler, go and lay supper as I tell you, and we'll talk later." "Supper? Where?"
I knew Rogers had dropped a hint to you about it: but o' course, seein' you here, I never guessed " Mrs Bosenna clapped her hands together. "And on that hint away comes Captain Hunken to ask my advice: knowing that I should be interested too.
"I reckon Mitchell can knock up a boat to give fits to anything of Wyatt's; and if 'Bias if Cap'n Hunken is countin' on Wyatt to help him put the fool on me, it may happen he'll learn better." "'Tis good to wear a bit of colour again," said Mrs Bosenna on Regatta morning, as she stood before her glass pinning to her bodice a huge bow of red, white, and blue ribbons. "Black never did become me."
"Here, though hold hard!" put in Fancy, who had picked up the bundle of papers. "I don't think Cap'n Hunken understands; nor I don't clearly understand myself. Was it both packets you carried home, sir? or only this one?" "I thought as I'd made it clear enough," answered Cai. His eyes were still on his friend, and there was weariness as well as pain in his voice.
"You're a lucky man. . . . Where did Cap'n Hunken keep his?" "Darn'd if I know. Somewheres about. He was always a bit careless over his securities and so I've told him a dozen times," "When did you tell him last?" This was a facer, and it made Cai blink. "We haven't discussed these things much not of late," he answered lamely. "I reckoned not. He don't keep 'em in his strong-box?"
"You might have known he's too soft to be teased. . . . Oh, be quiet, do, Palmerston! Think of your namesake!" A bell jangled overhead. "Captain Hocken's bell! and the child's face all blubbered, which he hates to see, while as for Captain Hunken there! it that isn't his bell going too in the adjoining! Palmerston, pull yourself together and be a man." "I c-can't, missus," sobbed Palmerston.
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