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"You've studied a lot on, ships," Nettie commented. "I know the main truck from a jewel block," Laurel replied complacently. "But Camilla's a frightful lubber. I should think she'd make Uncle Gerrit sick. She does me." Nettie Vollar was seized by the temptation to question Laurel about Gerrit Ammidon, about his wife anything that touched or concerned him.
"If you'll give me a mouthful of meat instead, I'll thank you; and with all my heart too." "Meat!" exclaimed the sailor, in astonishment, "what's the young lubber dreaming about? Come, don't be a fool; drink the ale, and you shall have some bread and cheese when you've finished your grog."
"Oh, think! we shall soon be in the presence of our Maker of Him whose name you " "Not we," cried David, with broad, cheerful incredulity; "we have lots more mischief to do that lubber and I. And if he thinks he is going there, let him end like a man, not like a skulking lubber, running from the helm, and letting the craft come up in the wind." "No, no, it was the sea he ran from. Who would not?"
It was John Rucker, coming home when we were not expecting him, and mad at finding me out of the factory. "I'll learn yeh to steal my time!" he was saying. "I'll learn your mother to lie to me about your workin'. A great lubber like you traipsin' around idle, and my woman bringin' a doctor's bill on me by workin' night an' day to make up your wages to me and lyin' to her husband!
He comes to me with a letter from mine old friend, in consideration of which I offer him that saucy lubber Bolt's place, a gown of mine own a year, meat and preferment, and, lo you, he tells me all he wants is to study Greek, forsooth, and hear the Dean's sermons!" The other canon shook his head in dismay at such arrant folly. "Young stripling, be warned," he said. "Know what is good for thee.
"Read the Church Service rather a bore Sunday, you know." The nondescript, then, was a chaplain. The same evening he returned to the hotel, and on the following morning I saw him again descending the stairs, the same dressing-case in hand. He nodded salute, slung his luggage to the same urchin with the cry, "Hook it, you lubber!" and, turning to me, said, "Ta, ta, sheering off again."
As I look back, I see no awful prisons and chains and gloom, but a pleasant jumble of best clothes, I remember now their smell when the drawer was opened, and Sunday-school lessons, and baked beans, and a big red Bible with the tower of Babel in it full of little bells, and a walk to church two miles through the lane, over the bars, through ten-acres, over another pair of bars, through a meadow, over another pair of bars, by Lubber Hill, over a wall, through another meadow, through the woods, over the ridge, by Black Pond, over a fence, across a railroad, over another fence, through a pasture, through the long woods, through a gate, through the low woods, through another gate, out upon the high-road at last.
'We shall see, fair cousin, he answered, with an odd satirical bow; 'we are as Heaven made us. All lies in the management and if you had the advantages of training, PERHAPS you could even turn your height into a grace. 'Am I such a great lubber? wondered Berenger; 'they did not think so at home. No; nor did the Queen. She said I was a proper stripling!
'Why, no more they would, ma'am, answered Nanty, 'could they find a Papist lubber that knew the coast as I do; then I am trusty as steel to owners, and always look after cargo live lumber, or dead flesh, or spirits, all is one to me; and your Catholics have such d d large hoods, with pardon, ma'am, that they can sometimes hide two faces under them.
"Call me a lubber if this ain't the most mystifyin' thing I've run my bow into since the Two Janes, uv Boston, brig, lost her bearings in a fog and fetched up off Iceland," declared the captain, who had elected to accompany the three leaders of the Patrol. "But drown or swim, sail or sink, we'll find that kid if he's on deck."
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