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"But I'm here at last." "Oh, that's all right, messmate. Come along and we'll pilot you straight to your friend, Winter " "Somers," corrected the other sailor. Between the pair, some two minutes later, Jack Benson turned off a side street into an alleyway. The houses down in this alley were dark. Most of the little buildings here were occupied only in the daytime, as junk shops and old rag stores.
Come, get up, or the skipper will send down two fellows to fetch you out." "Let him at his peril," snarled my messmate, pulling the clothes higher. "Shall I go and tell him that?" "If you dare." "Oh, I dare," I said, "but I wouldn't be such a sneak. But he really will send after you, if you don't get up." "Let him." "Come, you are better." "I'm not; I'm half dead." "You're not."
Tell me, what do you think, messmate? "`Why, replied I, `sarcumstances will make us do what we other wise would never think possible. I never was in such a predicament, and therefore can't tell what people may be brought to do. But tell me, messmate, what was the name of the poor woman? "`The husband's name was Ben Rivers. "`Rivers, did you say? replied I, struck all of a heap.
He was pitiable to see; but the adjutant, his protector, seemed, on that very account, to be severe on his messmate, and did not try to put him at his ease. "Well, you're a graceful lad! Where did you think you were going?" "Well, who can help tripping over these pins, Pavel Dmitrievitch?" said Guskof. "You tripped over them yourself the other day."
Now I am asking you two to stick by me and mine. I am trusting and believing that you are going to do it as I write this. When you read it I shan't be on hand. But, if I am where I can see and hear I shall still be believing you will do this last favor for your old messmate. Judge Baxter folded the sheets of foolscap and laid them on the table.
"You are a good fellow and a kind-hearted messmate," replied Edmond, "and heaven will recompense you for your generous intentions; but I do not wish any one to stay with me. A day or two of rest will set me up, and I hope I shall find among the rocks certain herbs most excellent for bruises."
With the tidings of the terrible fight of Peiho had come a letter from a messmate of Harry's with an account of his serious wound in the chest, describing it as just short of immediately dangerous.
"And what, Senor Nicholas, are you not going to join us?" asked Ben of his old messmate Flowers, who winced, Ben observed, whenever thus addressed. "Art not to be tempted by the prospect of fighting the Dons, man, and pocketing some of their gold? Thou canst speak their lingo, for I have heard thee talk it in thy sleep."
After an interval of half an hour, the Commissioner who had been his former messmate, entered with his certificate. “‘“I have much pleasure,” said he, “in having the power to present you your passing certificate, and I hope your speedy promotion will follow. Do you stay long in London?” “‘“Only to have a cruise in Wapping and to see St.
You live peaceably with the dog, who is your messmate; in gratitude to me, you regulate your reception, good or bad, of all the animals under my roof; thus, you raise your claw against such as you imagine mine enemies, while you prick up your tail at the sight of my friends. My dear Cat, you are a profound moralist!
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