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"From the sloop of war. The captain asked us to keep an eye open for two lads who had deserted." "Hor hor hor!" laughed Mike maliciously; "and now you've got 'em; Mr Gentleman Don and Master Jemmy Wimble." "If your hands warn't tied," cried Jem fiercely, "I'd punch your ugly head!" "Is this true, young man?" said the officer sternly. "Did you desert from His Majesty's sloop?"
There's a man here in charge of a carman's yard who is sure to have a couple of sacks which will suit us very well." He passed under an archway, followed by Neal, and entered a small yard. "Charlie," he cried, "are you there, Charlie?" A young man emerged from one of the stables. He started at the sight of Hope. "Are you mad, Jemmy Hope?" he said.
Such was the place of amusement kept by the Frau Vandersloosh, and in this large room had been seated, for some hours, Dick Short, Coble, Jansen, Jemmy Ducks, and some others of the crew of his Majesty's cutter Yungfrau. The room was now full, but not crowded; it was too spacious well to be so.
They liked our biscuit: but one of the savages touched with his finger some of the meat preserved in tin cases which I was eating, and feeling it soft and cold, showed as much disgust at it, as I should have done at putrid blubber. Jemmy was thoroughly ashamed of his countrymen, and declared his own tribe were quite different, in which he was wofully mistaken.
XVIII, which "contains none of those beautiful digressions, those remarks or reflections, which a certain would-be critick pretends are so much distinguished in the writings of his two favorite authors; yet it is to be hoped, will afford sufficient to please all those who are willing to be pleased." For the review of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy, see Monthly Review, VIII, 77.
Go in and write it every word down, for it's a wonder." Which Jemmy did, and I have repeated it to you my dear from his writing. Then the Major took my hand and kissed it, and said, "Dearest madam all has prospered with us." "Ah Major" I says drying my eyes, "we needn't have been afraid. We might have known it.
"Be quick about them, for my fingers are itching, I can tell you," replied Moggy. "Recollect, I will have my Jemmy, and cut the dog's throat in the bargain, if you don't look sharp." "Directly, good woman, directly," cried Vanslyperken: "be patient." "Good woman! no more a good woman than yourself," replied Moggy.
Help me through the time, Jemmy help me through the time." Bashwood the younger was in high spirits at the prospect of seeing the color of Mr. Armadale's money. He trifled with his father's anxiety to the very last. "Let's see if you remember what I've told you already," he began. "There's a character in the story that's dropped out of it without being accounted for.
"Yes," replied Jemmy, thoughtfully. "And in company with that supernatural cur of his?" Jemmy nodded his head, and then in his abstraction touched the strings of his violin. "They say that you are clever with your instrument, Mr Salisbury," observed Nancy Corbett. "That he is," replied Moggy; "and he sings like a darling duck. Don't you, Jemmy, my dear?" "Quack, quack," replied Jemmy.
It is, however, a remarkable coincidence, that in the two large islands cut off by the Beagle Channel from the rest of Tierra del Fuego, one has cliffs composed of matter that may be called stratified alluvium, which front similar ones on the opposite side of the channel, while the other is exclusively bordered by old crystalline rocks; in the former, called Navarin Island, both foxes and guanacos occur; but in the latter, Hoste Island, although similar in every respect, and only separated by a channel a little more than half a mile wide, I have the word of Jemmy Button for saying that neither of these animals is found.
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