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It came in ominous and heavy gusts, rattling the window-frames and moaning in the chimneys to such an extent that Mrs Laker, who was of a timid and superstitious nature, was fain to sit outside the parlour door in order to be near the other inmates of the cottage.
"Open the door!" shrieked Mrs Laker in the tone of one almost paralysed by astonishment; "open the door to a thousand robbers with swords, and guns, and blood, and dead bodies!" As Mrs Laker was robed in her night-gown, and stood erect, with her arms extended and her hair dishevelled, she looked dreadfully tragic and awful, while these fearful words flowed from her pale lips.
Mrs Laker, having uttered the foregoing without pause or inflection of voice from beginning to end, came to an abrupt stop. Whether from want of breath or ideas it is difficult to say; perhaps from both. "Show the gentleman in, Laker," said Mrs Foster; "no doubt he has good reason for wishing to see me." Laker vanished. She was impulsive in her actions as well as in her words.
And so you have become a laker in your religion, my dear commodore," continued the general, between his teeth, while he smoked and squeezed a lemon at the same time, "and do your worshipping on the water?" "Altogether of late, and more especially since my dream." "Dream! My dear sir, I should think you altogether too innocent a man to dream." "The best of us have our failings, general.
"Come, attend to Guy," said Bax, in a deep, commanding voice. He lifted up Mrs Laker and the bed-clothes as if she had been a large washing, and carried her down to her own apartment, guided by Tommy Bogey, who knew the way, where he placed her in bed, and left her to recover as she best might.
At length his anxious scrutiny was rewarded with success, and, waving his spear from the shore, he said in a cautious tone: Send her outside the bass, John; I see a laker there, that has run out of the school. Its seldom one finds such a creatur in shallow water, where a spear can touch it.
Hence, in order to prevent inconvenient recognition, the men were wont to give each other nicknames, which nicknames descended frequently to their offspring. The father of Captain Bluenose and of Mrs Laker had been a notorious scamp about the beginning of this century, at which period Deal may be said to have been in full swing in regard to smuggling and the French war.
"Ho! goodness gracious me, ma'am," cried worthy Mrs Laker, bursting into her mistress's apartment "if here ain't a thousand robbers as is come for to pillidge the ouse an' trample down the garding.
Tommy said he would have a bit of beef-steak pie; got it, and set to work immediately. This statement involves a further explanation, inasmuch as it establishes the fact that Bluenose ought, in simple justice and propriety, to have gone by the name of Laker also. But on the beach of Deal justice and propriety in regard to names are not necessarily held in great repute.
Three times had Mrs Laker been sent to knock at Amy's door, and inform the young ladies that supper awaited them, before they completed their toilet, and descended to the drawing-room. Laker called it supper, because she could not conscientiously give the name of breakfast to a meal extemporised about four o'clock in the morning! Mr Burton and Bluenose were already seated at the table.
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