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Updated: June 14, 2025
He was a marvel to everyone; it was a mystery how he lasted so long. Money went away from him as rain runs off the oiled surface of a shiny mackintosh coat. And yet he had always plenty of it; eclipses he might know, but they were partial; collapse might threaten, but it was always delayed.
I've given you your exeat, but you needn't use it. Come in to-morrow evening after hall." Frank stood up. "Thanks, very much, Mr. Mackintosh. I'll ... I'll certainly remember what you've said." He took up his exeat as if mechanically. "Then you can leave that for the present," smiled the Dean, pointing at it. "I can write you another, you know." Frank put it down quickly.
Ready, do I give good advice or not?" "You give very good advice, Mackintosh only what is to become of the cabin passengers, the women, and children? and are you going to leave poor Captain Osborn? or what do you mean to do?" "We won't leave the captain," said one of the seamen. "No no!" exclaimed the others. "And the passengers?"
On rare occasions a couple of planters or traders would drive over to play bridge, and then Walker showed himself in what Mackintosh considered a characteristic light. He played regardless of his partner, calling up in his desire to play the hand, and argued interminably, beating down opposition by the loudness of his voice.
"I wish you success with all my heart; and, Mr Mackintosh, I have but one promise to exact from you, and I hope you will not refuse me: which is, that if you are saved, you will not forget those you leave here on board, and take measures for their being searched for among the islands." "Nonsense, Ready! come into the boat," replied the first mate.
Surreptitiously, however, for weeks after they would look in that paper, which they took with respect on account of its really fashionable proclivities, to see whether 'Bright's Rubies' or 'The Woollen Mackintosh Company' were up or down.
I daresay we continued to paddle in that child's dreams for many a night after. Sun and shower alternated like day and night, making the hours longer by their variety. When the showers were heavy, I could feel each drop striking through my jersey to my warm skin; and the accumulation of small shocks put me nearly beside myself. I decided I should buy a mackintosh at Noyon.
These were the exclamations that burst from the lips of the captives as two boys launched themselves forward to receiving arms. Then came the dignified Skipper Mackintosh. "You are saved, good sirs," he said, without waiting for an introduction. "My good phosphorus paint and the brains o' these fine laddies has called up the fiery totem.
Suddenly it stopped, and I heard the faintest crunch on the thin layer of snow and the rattling of more snow as it slid off my tent from a blow that had been struck on the outside. I jumped to the door of the tent. It was the cook. "Purty cold in there, ain't it? You'd a good sight better come to the fire. Ain't you got a slicker?" I put on a mackintosh and overshoes and went to the fire.
The second impulse was to arise in his might, put on a stout pair of the Terwilliger three-dollar brogans the strongest shoe made, having been especially devised for the British Infantry in the Soudan and garments suitable to the occasion, namely, a mackintosh and pair of broadcloth trousers, and go to the rescue of the distressed domestic.
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