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"I bet she didn'. Mind you, I don't know, nuther." He up-ended his besom and plucked a leaf or two from between the twigs before adding, "And what, makin' so bold, did she tell about the Churchwardens?" "The Churchwardens?" I echoed. "Aye, the Churchwardens: Matthey Hancock an' th' old Farmer Truslove. They was took ill right about the same time. Aw, my dear" Mr.
Four officers Captains Matthey and D'Orsonnens and Lieutenants Graffenreid and Fauché and about eighty of the rank and file were willing to enlist. It was agreed that they should receive allotments of land in Assiniboia on the terms granted to the settlers who had formerly gone from Scotland and Ireland.
He is an elderly man, tall and sizable, with a grizzled beard and eyes innocent-tender as a child's, but set in deep crow's-feet at the corners, as all seamen's eyes are. It comes of facing the wind. Pilot Matthey spent the fore-half of his life at the fishing. Thence he won his way to be a Trinity pilot, and wears such portions of an old uniform as he remembers to don.
There was nothing unusual about Matthey, save that, although it was a warm evening in August, he wore a thick pea-jacket, and had turned the collar up about his ears.
Lovey standing very demure, and smoothing her apron down along her thighs confessed that she had laid her trouble before Our Lady. "A miracle, then!" exclaimed his Reverence. "What height! What depth!" "That's of it," agreed Lovey. "Aw, b'lieve me, your Reverence, we mothers understand wan another." Pilot Matthey came down to the little fishing-quay at five p.m. or thereabouts.
But tell me you that for twenty minutes have been telling these fellows how Christ feels towards them how can you know? It is hard enough, surely, to get inside any man's feelings. How can you pretend to know what Christ feels, or felt for an instance, in the Judgment Hall, when Peter denied?" "Once I did, sir," said Pilot Matthey, smoothing the worn knees of his trousers. "It was just that.
"Oh, yes" as light broke on me "Halcyon days, of course!" "That's right," Pilot Matthey nodded. "That's what you called 'em. . . . It took us a whole day to work past the tides of the Start. Then, about sunset, a light draught off the land helped us to Bolt Tail, and after that we mostly drifted all night, with here and there a cat's-paw, down across Bigbury Bay.
"It struck me after a bit" here Pilot Matthey turned to me with one of those shy smiles which, as they reveal his childish, simple heart, compel you to love the man. "It struck me after a bit that a hemn-tune mightn't come amiss to a man in that distress of mind. So I pitched to sing that grand old tune, 'Partners of a glorious hope, a bit low at first, but louder as I picked up confidence.
The fire had died out of him. He eyed me almost shamefacedly at first, by and by more boldly. "I would give, sir," said Pilot Matthey, "I would give half my worldly goods to lead you to the Lord." "I believe you," said I. "To my knowledge you have often risked more than that your life to save men from drowning.
"The busy tribes o' flesh and blood, With all their cares and fears " Ay, 'cares and fears'; that's of it "Are carried downward by the flood, And lost in followin' years." "Poor Daniel poor boy!" Pilot Matthey sat silent for a while, staring out over the water in the wake of the boats that already had begun to melt into the shadow of darkness.
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