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"I vas on my vay to ze soute aux poudres to blow you and all ze people to ze devil to keep company wiz your inqueezatif first leftenant. And I would have done eet, too, but for zat pestilent midshipman, who have ze gripe of ze devil himself. Peste! you Eengleesh, you are like ze bouledogue, ven you take hold you not nevare let go again."
"I think we have done them at last," said the captain; "what do you think, leftenant?" giving me a hearty but very friendly slap on the back. "Come, what say you; shall we take a cool bottle of London particular after the fatigues of the day?" "Wait a little," said I, "wait a little."
Rubbin his hot face with a red handkercher, he said, "Is the strange bein a American?" "He is." "A Gen'ral?" "No." "A Colonial?" "No." "A Majer?" "Not a Majer." "A Capting?" "He is not." "A leftenant?" "Not even that." "Then," said the lan'lord of the Green Lion, "you ar deceeved! He is no countryman of yours." "Why not?" I said. "I will tell you, Sir," said the lan'lord.
If that Yankee or Chunk ever come within our reach again the nigger stole my horse and brought the Yank here too in time to prevent the wedding, I believe." "Reck'n he did, Leftenant." "Well, he and his master may be within our reach again. We had better not be seen much together. I will reward you well for any real service," and he strode away in strong perturbation.
"Leftenant Logan," replied a wounded trooper who had a sabre-cut on the side of his face which was bleeding profusely. "The fall of Captain Letcher leaves me in command," said this officer, approaching the young lieutenant.
The captain guessed he read in his face, 'Well now, if I was to run this here Yankee right slap on a rock and bilge her, the King would make a man of me for ever. So, says he to the first leftenant, 'Reeve a rope through that 'ere block at the tip eend of the fore yard, and clap a runnin' noose in it. The leftenant did it as quick as wink, and came back, and says he, 'I guess it's done. 'Now, says the captain, 'look here, pilot; here's a rope you hain't seed yet, I'll jist explain the use of it to you in case you want the loan of it.
I haf sent Kelly along to look after them a leetle und make them keep a goot watch. We are shust as safe as bossible. Und to-morrow we will basture the animals. It is a goot blace for a gamp, Leftenant, und we shall pe all right in a tay or two." "Does Shubert's leg need attention?" "No. It is shust nothing. Shupert is for tuty." "And you feel perfectly able to take care of yourselves here?"
As the day grew, a thin, wavy column of smoke was observed ascending from the camp fire, which was partly hidden among a growth of scrub cedars, some distance to the right of the trail, whither it must have been difficult for the couple to force their horses. "That leftenant ought to have knowed better than to do that," remarked Vose Adams, "his fire can be seen a long way off."
'I am dreadful sorry, says I, 'to see you, Banks, lookin' so peecked; why you look like a sick turkey hen, all legs; what on airth ails you? 'I'm dyin', says he, 'of a broken heart. 'What, says I, 'have the gals been jiltin' you? 'No, no, says he, 'I bean't such a fool as that neither. 'Well, says I, 'have you made a bad speculation? 'No, says he, shakin' his head, 'I hope I have too much clear grit in me to take on so bad for that. 'What under the sun, is it, then? said I. 'Why, says he, 'I made a bet the fore part of summer with Leftenant Oby Knowles, that I could shoulder the best bower of the Constitution frigate.
"Leftenant," though a corruption of respectable antiquity, is a corruption none the less, and since it has died out in America, it would be mere snobbery to reintroduce it. So, too, with questions of accentuation. Here there is no question of right or wrong, refinement or vulgarity. The one accentuation is as good as the other.
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