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I believe, said Mr Gills, blowing the dust off the glass top of a compass-case, 'that you don't point more direct and due to the back parlour than the boy's inclination does after all. And the parlour couldn't bear straighter either. Due north. Not the twentieth part of a point either way. 'Halloa, Uncle Sol! 'Halloa, my boy! cried the Instrument-maker, turning briskly round.
The old Instrument-maker is more distraught and misty than he used to be, and takes the marriage and the parting very much to heart. But he is greatly comforted by having his old ally, Ned Cuttle, at his side; and he sits down to supper with a grateful and contented face. 'My boy has been preserved and thrives, says old Sol Gills, rubbing his hands.
Was it this here quotation, "Turn again Whittington, Lord Mayor of London, and when you are old you will never depart from it." Was it them words, Sol Gills? 'It certainly was, Ned, replied the old Instrument-maker. 'I remember well. 'Then I tell you what, says the Captain, leaning back in his chair, and composing his chest for a prodigious roar.
'Yes, yes, he has, Uncle, said the boy, reddening and laughing. 'Has he? cried the old man. 'Indeed I think he has too. 'Oh! I know he has, said the boy. 'Some of 'em were talking about it in the office today. That's what they say. Of course, I don't know. 'He knows all about her already, you see, said the instrument-maker.
Our progress under these circumstances was very doubtful; possibly we were on the right course, but it was just as probable nay, more so that we were off it. The best thing we could do, therefore, was to pitch our camp, and wait for a better state of things. We did not bless the instrument-maker who had supplied those compasses. It was 10 a.m. when we stopped.
Once they prepared a touching surprise for me in the form of a little party which they arranged for New Year's Eve . Lehrs arrived at dusk, rang the bell, and brought a leg of veal; Kietz brought some rum, sugar, and a lemon; Pecht supplied a goose; and Anders two bottles of the champagne with which he had been presented by a musical instrument-maker in return for a flattering article he had written about his pianos.
The enthusiasm of the astronomer and the instrument-maker communicated itself to the Board, and a tremendous circle, to be ten feet in diameter, was forthwith projected. Projected, but never carried out.
But when the pea-coat, cap, and comforter lifted themselves up again, Florence gently moved towards them; and she and Walter taking them off, disclosed the old Instrument-maker, a little thinner and more careworn than of old, in his old Welsh wig and his old coffee-coloured coat and basket buttons, with his old infallible chronometer ticking away in his pocket.
"Here," observes my wife, "he is, released from sea-going, after that first long voyage with his young bride" as you know he was, Mr Sols. 'Quite true, says the old Instrument-maker, rubbing his hands.
From whatever side we regarded our grotesque undertaking, we encountered unsuitability and incompetence. For instance, it was impossible in the whole of Paris to find the twelve French horns which in Dresden had so bravely sounded the hunting call in the first act. In connection with this matter I had to deal with the terrible man Sax, the celebrated instrument-maker.
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