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She saw Captain Hunken draw his hand horizontally with a slow explanatory gesture and then drop it abruptly at a right angle. 'Bias was, in fact, at that moment expounding to Cai, point by point and in a condescending way, the right outline of a prize Devon shorthorn. "A trifle o' bluffness in the entry don't matter, if you understand me," said 'Bias, retrieving his lesson.
"But having misjudged the time, and in his hurry to meet you good friend that he is Oh, Captain Hunken, if you could have heard the way he spoke of you! What he led me to expect not," she added prettily, "that I admit to being disappointed." "Go on, ma'am," said Captain Tobias sturdily. But in truth it had come to his turn to look ashamed. "Well, you see, in his haste he forgot it.
For, let alone the craft, they say Cap'n Hunken can handle a small boat to beat any man in this harbour. He cleared a whole prize-list out in Barbadoes, I've heard." "What, 'Bias? Don't you be afraid. He can't steer a small boat for nuts." "Dear me! Then I must have been misinformed, indeed." "You have been," Cai assured him.
I've taken the two houses for 'ee, what's more, an' the leases be drawn ready to sign. . . . But where's your friend? He'll be welcome too that is, if you don't hold three too many for a leg o' mutton?" "'Bias Hunken? . . . You didn't reckon I was bringing him along with me, did you?" "I reckoned nothin' at all, not knowin' the man." "Well, he's at West Indy Docks, London, or was, a week ago.
"Sure enough I did," Cai allowed. "But confound it, you know! 'Bias Hunken isn't a child." "Oh! if that contents you " But well she knew it did not. "Mr Rogers never would " "I've told you," said Fancy, "more'n ever I ought to have told.
What native quickness did for her, native stolidity did almost as well for Captain Hunken, who sat in an arm-chair by the fireplace smoking and watching her and had been sitting and watching her for a good half an hour admiringly, without converse.
"Better fit there was no need, and you'd played fair." "'Played fair'!" Cai flamed up at last "I don't take that from you, 'Bias Hunken, nor yet from any one! You fell into your own trap that's what happened to you. . . . 'Played fair'? I suppose you was playin' fair when you sneaked off unbeknowns and early to Rilla that mornin', after we'd agreed " "Well?" asked 'Bias, as Cai came to a halt.
But Cai, though he obeyed, and stood for a moment in the direct line of their vision, could detect no change in the unwinking eyes. "Cap'n Hunken will even have it that he hears what's said, or scraps of it. But that I don't believe. . . . I believe 'tis but a buzzin' in his ears, with no sense to it, an' 'twould be jus' the same if we was the band of the R'yal Lifeguards."
"What you don't seem to know though with any experience o' speakin' you'd understand well enough is that close upon the last moment all your thoughts fly, and specially if folks will keep chatterin': but when you stand up and open your mouth provided as nobody interrupts you . . ." "I declare! If it isn't Captain Hocken and Captain Hunken with him!"
"Yes, yes; there was talk of a friend o' yours, an' that you two were for settin' up house alongside one another. Hunken was the name, if I remember?" Again Captain Cai glanced at the ship-chandler. He was plainly puzzled, as the ship-chandler was plainly nettled. But he answered simply "That's it 'Bias Hunken." "Have I met the man, by any chance?"
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