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On going about fifty yards to the rear, I came up with my friend and messmate, Gregory, who was being carried by several comrades. A Minie-ball had gone through his left arm into his breast and almost through his body, lodging in the right side of his back. Still he recovered, and was a captain of ordnance at the surrender, and two years ago I visited him at his own home in California.
"Had the island been fertile, and you could have supported yourself, I, for one, would never have hindered you, for I have observed the way the officers and men behave to you. But for the future I think we can prevent that. I have a notion that we owe our lives to you and your messmate, and we're grateful to you for it; so come along, and don't again attempt to run away."
I promised Cora not to be hasty with Moran. He's the 'gent' who is supposed to be president of the company." "The one who wears the Panama? I wonder if anyone would think of haste in connection with that duffer. It took him just one hour to buy three soft crabs from some kids at the dock yesterday," said Walter. "I wouldn't like to be his messmate. But I don't like his eye; it's made on the bias."
The same seats are there, running along the wall, where Doctor Johnson, "Goldy" and Boswell so often sat and waked the echoes with their laughter. We had chops and tomato-sauce in recollection of Jingle and Trotter. The chops were of that delicious kind unknown outside of England. I supplied the legend this time, for my messmate had never heard of Boswell.
He shook his head sorrowfully, and when I helped him to lie down again no easy task, for he was so big he shut his eyes and whispered, "How is our sick friend?" he said. "What, Walters, my messmate?" "No, no, the passenger, Mr Denning." "I haven't seen him, but the steward said he seemed pretty well, sir." "Impossible. In such a delicate state of health. Have you seen the lady?"
"I communicated with Mr Brymer and Mr Frewen," I cried. "And said `How de do? I'm quite well thank you, how are you? Didn't pay for the trouble, sir. We must do something better than that. What do you say, Neb?" "I says as I arn't going to squeedge my carcadge into that hole again if I knows it, messmate." "And you, Barney?" Barney Blane uttered a low deep snore.
"Ay, ay, sir, I'll be careful, for I've got a great respeck for Bob Hampton, mariner. But you'll lend a hand, Neb, if I want hauling out?" "I just wall," growled the big fellow. "You shall have it, messmate."
He had ridden to Sir John Durham's mansion, a distance of thirty miles, to hear, on his arrival, that Constantia had quitted her father's house two days previously on a visit to an aunt in London, and had just sent word that she was the wife of Captain Oxford, hussar, and messmate of one of her brothers. A letter from the bride awaited Willoughby at the Hall.
I ask no questions, nor I won't let others. I know when a game's up, I do; and I know a lad that's staunch. Ah, you that's young you and me might have done a power of good together!" He drew some cognac from the cask into a tin cannikin. "Will you taste, messmate?" he asked; and when I had refused: "Well, I'll take a drain myself, Jim," said he. "I need a caulker, for there's trouble on hand.
A pinch of his baggy throat, between the fingers and thumbs of both hands, foreshadowed a cleaner end; and yet I could look at him; nay, it was more than I could do not to look upon that bloodless face, with the two dry blots upon the parchment, that were never withdrawn from mine. "No you won't, messmate! If it's him or us for it, let a bullet do it, and let it do it quick, you bloody Spaniard!
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