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His Majesty's face turned black as thunder as I began; and when I was done it was all stiff with pride. "That is your mind, Mr. Mallock, then?" he said. "That is my mind, Sir," I answered him. And then a change went over his face once more. God knows why he relented; I think it may have been that he had somewhat of a fancy for me, and remembered how I had pleased him and tried to serve him.
If you took anything now, it would make you known, and ruin half your work. If you will take my advice, Mr. Mallock, you will tell the King, Bye and bye; and have a peerage when the time comes." Now of course these thoughts had crossed my mind too: but it was more to hear them from a man like this.
Charles Reade in "Hard Cash," Mr. Mallock in his "Nineteenth Century Romance," Clark Russel in "Marooned," and Mayne Reid, besides others, have used the same theater.
It was he who knocked this time; and it was not until the old woman had opened, and was curtseying to the King's page, that he called me up. "Come, Mr. Mallock. Your cousin is within." We went straight upstairs after the old lady; and upon her knock being answered, she threw the door open. My Cousin Dolly was sitting over her needle, all alone.
"The builders of the 'Dodger' have been working to make the action of the steering wheel progressively lighter with each boat that they have built. Men on a submarine craft must have the steadiest nerves at all times, and steady nerves do not go hand in hand with muscle fatigue." Lieutenant Jack walked to the entrance to the conning tower. "Mallock!" he called down to one of the crew.
But he had begged me to take my leave in proper form; no harm would be done by that; and then he had told me that His Majesty knew all that had passed and was very sorry for it. I sat silent when he said that. "Yes, Mr. Mallock," he said again, "and I mean not only for your own sorrow, but for his own treatment of you. It hath been a whim with him: he treats often so those whom he loves.
The merry look was back in his eyes, melancholy though they always were, as he said this. For myself, it was on the tip of my tongue to ask His Majesty why, if he thought so, he did not act upon it. But I did not, thinking it too bold on so short an acquaintance; and I think I was right in that; for he put it immediately into words himself. "I know what you are thinking, Mr. Mallock.
"There is no doubt of it," said I, with my mouth full. "And a good patriot too. It is what we want, Mr. Mallock." Again I assented; and my Lord presently changed the conversation. During the rest of dinner he said nothing that was significant of any of the things I suspected. I knew now, beyond a doubt, both from what Mr.
"You preserved it then, because it might be of interest; and you did not hand it over because it might not," sneered the Colonel. "Come! come!" said the King sharply. "We must have a better answer than that, Mr. Mallock." Then my heart blazed at the injustice. "Sir," I said, "I am telling the naked truth. If I were a liar and a knave I could make up a very plausible tale, no doubt. But I am not.
The King rose abruptly, pushing back his chair; and as he rose I heard the trumpets for supper, in the Court outside. "Then you had best be gone. Take it, Mr. Mallock." I came round and received the packet; and I kissed the King's hand which he had not given to me as I had come in.
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