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Updated: May 10, 2025
If you can find your way to the mail-boat landing where he is helping to load up, and tell him to come to me right away, you'll be doing a good action." "I wonder if mother will scold?" "Tell her it was my doing, and if she will come hear my reasons she'll be satisfied. You'll hurry, won't you, dear?" Miss Outcast promised, and, after repeating the message several times, started briskly off.
But the doctor made them see that it was quite necessary for someone to see her off safely, and naturally the job fell to him. The booking of the passage had caused considerable discussion. Aunt Janet had written to the shipping company asking them to reserve a saloon berth by the first mail-boat after a certain date.
And I discovered this strange circumstance: that while her strength withered, her hope grew large, and she loved to dwell upon the things she would do when the doctor had made her well; and I wondered why that was, but puzzled to no purpose. The MAN on The MAIL-BOAT
On one occasion, when making "a little trip to Japan," I took my Pekingese boy with me. Having missed the fortnightly mail-boat I made the passage from Chefoo in a small German collier, and on arrival at Nagasaki took rickshas to the hotel.
"Was you sayin', Davy," he began, at last, trailing off into the silence of utter amazement, "that you been gettin' a " "I was sayin'," I answered, "that the mail-boat left you a letter." He came close. "Was you sayin'," he whispered in my ear, with a jerk of his head to the north, "that 'tis from " I nodded. "She?" "Ay." He put his tongue in his cheek and gave me a slow, sly wink.
"He claims he can," Brown said dryly. "We have argued about his going to Grand Canary by a mail-boat, but he's obstinate. Means to finish the job; that's his sort! Anyhow, it's possible the Trade breeze will brace him up, and if he did go, the chances of my taking Arcturus to Liverpool are not good."
My flag flapped a welcome in the sunny wind as the mail-boat came creeping through the Gate and with a great rattle and splatter dropped anchor in the basin off my father's wharf: for through my father's long glass I had from the summit of the Watchman long before spied the doctor aboard.
The Governor led the bride along the gangway, introduced the captain of the mail-boat, and there were more congratulatory speeches, and still more of official ceremony as the bride passed by a line of inquisitive and admiring passengers fortunately there were not many and down to the state-room prepared for her.
Having been told that all the mines had been swept up and that everything was perfectly right, I was to have started by the 12.15 boat, that is the boat which started an hour after the doomed hospital ship. We were all told, however, that we were not to cross by the said 12.15, or leave-boat, but must wait for the P. & O. mail-boat.
The Greek mail-boat had arrived, and under the blazing sun he toiled good-humouredly and patiently. The work was hard, but it gave him no opportunity of thinking. He had to be continually dodging large bales of fruit and wine, and if he made a mistake the officer on duty would shout at him angrily, "Lazy dog! you would not have left Greece were you not an idle fellow."
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