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"I do wish Jellaby would come out of that cabin; for, I should like to take our patient to the ship at once and put him under treatment without further delay as he's in a very bad way. I can't think what's keeping the lieutenant so long!" "Shall I go and see, sir?" "I wish you would, my boy. Really, I don't like the look of the weather at all!"
She is equally good, whether as the formal and severe matron of starched domestic life, or the genial dame of the pantry. She could play Temperance in The Country Squire, and equally she could play Mrs. Jellaby. All varieties of the eccentricity of elderly women, whether serious or comic, are easily within her grasp.
Mr Jellaby, proved a recreant knight and the Dutch lady had to content herself with the cavalier-ship of the youngest and most diminutive cadet on board, my chum, little Tommy Mills!
You're in the other camp?" "Not particularly. Where did you get that idea?" His neighbour looked round negligently. "Oh," said he, "I somehow thought so"; and Shelton almost heard him adding, "There's something not quite sound about you." "Why do you admire Jellaby?" he asked. "Knows his own mind," replied his neighbour; "it 's more than the others do . . . . This whitebait is n't fit for cats!
The moment the Spaniard saw Mr Jellaby start off on this mission, he drew a deep breath of satisfaction. "Buena, buena good, good!" he murmured softly, as if talking to himself. "Soy muy mal I feel very ill!"
All the cutter's passengers, however, were not yet aboard. "Hold on, there!" cried Captain Farmer, as the falls were slackened off and the boat slowly lowered down into the heaving water alongside, the waves coming half-way up the counter to meet her. "I think the doctor had better go with you, Mr Jellaby.
Clever fellow, Jellaby! No nonsense about him! Have you ever heard him speak? Awful good sport to watch him sittin' on the Opposition. A poor lot they are!" and he laughed, either from appreciation of Jellaby sitting on a small minority, or from appreciation of the champagne bubbles in his glass. "Minorities are always depressing," said Shelton dryly. "Eh? what?"
A quarter-of-an-hour later, both watches were mustered, all decently dressed, like "Sally in our Alley," in their Sunday best, according to their respective stations; the first and second divisions on the upper deck and forecastle, under the first lieutenant and Mr Jellaby; the third and fourth divisions on the main deck, with Mr Gilham and Mr Bitpin at the head of the men; and the fifth and sixth on the lower deck, in charge of "Gunnery Jack," in lieu of one of the regular lieutenants, and the second mate, the fat Plumper, bursting out of his buttons as usual, who was at the head of the after-guard, among whom I recognised the ex-gravedigger, "Downy."
Spread out there, men spread out in skirmishing order, to cover your front! Hang it, come on, my lads come on, or we'll be too late!" Captain Oliver of the Merlin was running us cheek by jowl with his contingent on the left and Commander Jellaby of the Bullfinch trying to outstrip him on our right; so, we had hard work to keep our place in line ahead.
Mr Jellaby, however, not knowing where his deputy, Mr Bitpin, might be, came up on the quarter-deck; but he had no sooner appeared there than the commander despatched him to another station. "Please go down at once to the lower deck, Mr Jellaby," said he, on catching sight of him. "I want you to attend to the working of the cables.
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