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But the commander was too busy acting all three L's Log, Lead and Lookout his shrouded figure swaying to the heave and fall and his eyes fixed straight ahead of him on the double line of boiling foam. He had conned his course and had it charted in his head. There was no time to argue with a pilot. "Port you-ah hel-um, sah! Port you-ah hel-um!" "By the mark seven!" sang Joe Byng from the chains.
I have just arrived from Bombay, and hasten to present a letter from your son, and to deliver over my interesting charge, this dear child, Letta Langley, whom " "The expectorated girl!" shouted uncle Rik, leaping up, "begins with an L, two L's indeed. Bah, I'm an idiot! Excuse my excitement, madam pray go on."
At high mass in the morning he exorcised the devil, and he left her, spitting at the cross of Christ before taking his final departure. As to Mr. McDonnel's repeatedly telling Catharine that she must leave Mr. L's house immediately, for if she remained there Mr. L. would put the devil in her, Mr. McDonnel denied saying or doing anything whatever that was detrimental to the character of Mr.
"From Labe Ginn," he observed. "Nobody else in Scarford that I know would spell Daniel with two 'l's and no 'i. What's troublin' Laban? Somethin' about the house, I presume likely." He leisurely tore open the envelope. The letter was a lengthy one, scrawled upon a half dozen sheets of cheap note paper. The handwriting was almost as unique as the spelling, which is saying considerable.
In these lines, fully as much is conveyed to the reader by the mere melody of m's and r's and l's as by the content, or denotation, of the words. For instance, the word "innumerable," which denotes to the intellect merely "incapable of being numbered," is in this connection made to suggest to the senses the murmuring of bees.
"They say you are English, but I don't believe it; you speak too soft, and you sound the double L's too well. A Spaniard?" "Do you find me so devout a Catholic that you think so?" She laughed. "A Greek, then?" "Still worse. Have you seen me cheat at cards?" "An Austrian? You waltz like a White Coat!" He shook his head.
"They never spell Manila with two l's when they spell it correctly; for that would make another word of it, a common noun instead of a proper, and meaning quite another thing," the professor explained. "Perhaps I am stupid, Professor, and I know next to nothing of the Spanish language," added Uncle Moses, "but I don't quite understand you.
Was this a t or an l or an i? was that a b or a d? This was a cruel revenge on Lizzie's part; for the sender of the letter was completely at her mercy. The schoolmaster's name being tabooed in her presence, he was unable to explain that the writing was not his own; and as for deciding between the t's and l's, he could not do it. Eventually he would be directed to put the letter into the box.
Come and take your things off, and tell me all about Peltry, and the hunting, and the new horse. Mr. Urquhart told me he was going to stay with you. Is he? I'm so glad you like him. Lancelot and I highly approve. I must show you Lancelot's letter about him. He calls him the polligamous pirate with two l's of course."
"Oh, stop, I want to speak to you a minute, uncle." cried Jacquelina, starting up and flying after him, and as she flew, pulling out her handkerchief and letting the note drop upon the floor. A swift, sly, backward glance showed that Grim had pounced upon it like a panther on its prey. "What in the d l's name are you running after me for?" burst forth the old man as Jacko overtook him.
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