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Oh, I beg pardon " "For simply interrupting him in a conversation with our second officer," continued our host, quietly. "The act, although harsh and perhaps unnecessarily final, was, I think, indorsed by the crew. James, pass the champagne to Mr. Lightbody." He paused a moment for the usual casual interruption, but even the active Legrande was silent.
"To see what?" asked Legrande. "Aller sur mer," said his neighbor, hastily. "Go on with your piracy!" said Miss Jones. The distinguished foreigners looked at each other and then at Miss Jones. Each made a mental note of the average cold-blooded ferocity of the young American female. "I shipped on board of a Liverpool 'liner," continued our host.
Here Legrande recognized a patriotic sentiment and responded to it with wild republican enthusiasm, nodding his head violently. Piccadilly noticed it, too, and, seeing an opening for some general discussion on free trade, began half audibly to HIS neighbor: "Most extraordinary thing, you know, your American statesmen " "I deserted the ship at Liverpool "
His professional brethren in Paris were equally solicitous to testify their regard; and MM. Felix Roubaud, Legrande, and Caffe, as delegates of the scientific press, proposed to the medical body, and to the scientific world in Paris, to invite Lescarbault to a banquet in the Hôtel du Louvre on January 18.
"What ess a 'liner'?" interrupted Legrande, sotto voce, to his next neighbor, who pretended not to hear him. "I need not say that these were the days when we had not lost our carrying trade, when American bottoms " "Que est ce, 'bot toom'?" said Legrande, imploringly, to his other friend. "When American bottoms still carried the bulk of freight, and the supremacy of our flag "
Cathcart, chairman of the Resolutions Committee, read the following: "The State Equal Suffrage League tenders appreciation and thanks to the members of the General Assembly of South Carolina, who have fostered the cause ... among them Joseph E. McCullough, Greenville; A. E. Horton, Spartanburg; James A. Hoyt, Speaker of the House; Senators J. L. Sherard, Anderson; Neils Christensen, Beaufort; Allan Johnston, Newberry; Legrande Walker, Georgetown; T. C. Duncan, Union, and Representative Shelor, Oconee.
We all murmured "Certainly," as if piracy were a natural expression of the exuberance of youth. "I ought, perhaps, explain the circumstances that led me into this way of life." Here Legrande, a courteous attache of the Patagonian legation, interposed in French and an excess of politeness, "that it was not of a necessity," a statement to which his English neighbor hurriedly responded, "Oui, oui."
As I looked over the glimmering expanse, I suddenly heard the whispered name of our first mate. As suddenly, by the phosphorescent light that surrounded it, I saw the long trailing hair and gleaming shoulders of a woman floating beside us. Legrande, you are positively drinking nothing. Lightbody, you are shirking the Burgundy you used to like it!" He paused, but no one spoke.
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