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"I wonder Miggs was able to send a report at all, and I wonder still more that you should put any faith in it," his son said impatiently. "The fellow is never sober." "Miggs is a good seaman, and popular on the coast. He may indulge at times, but we all have our failings. Here is the list as vouched for by our agent. 'Six hundred barrels of palm oil' " "Oil is down to-day," the other interrupted.
Captain Hamilton Miggs had found the liquor of the Cock and Cowslip so very much to his taste, in spite of its vitriolic peculiarities recorded in a preceding chapter, that he rejoined his ship in a very shaky and demoralized condition.
In return to these compliments the other bade him hold his tongue, and keep his noise to himself, and laid upon him many similar injunctions, with great fluency of speech and sternness of manner. 'Commend me, captain, to the stricken Miggs, returned the torch-bearer in a lower voice. 'My captain flies at higher game than Miggses. Ha, ha, ha!
She couldn't bear for those keen gray eyes to look her through, as if they were weighing her in the balance and finding her wanting. For a Freshman to start a fad popular enough to spread through the entire school was an unheard of thing at Warwick Hall, but A.O. Miggs had that distinction early in the term.
Hertford and Sanderson, attended only by a small party of natives, had gone into the mountains to gather their specimens. Since then nothing had been heard of the two enthusiastic young scientists until Sentry Miggs had stumbled upon his gruesome find. The soldiers discussed little else that morning. "Of course it was the old brown rascal, Hakkut, who had the young scientific gentlemen killed.
Such a person found, he proposed to bring him there on the ensuing night, when the tall one was taken off, and Miss Miggs had purposely retired; and then that Dolly should be gagged, muffled in a cloak, and carried in any handy conveyance down to the river's side; where there were abundant means of getting her smuggled snugly off in any small craft of doubtful character, and no questions asked.
"I'd furl the top-gallant sails and get her stay-sails down, Mr. McPherson." Whenever he gave an order he was careful to give the mate his full title, though at other times he called him indiscriminately Sandy or Mac. The mate gave the necessary commands, while Miggs dived down into the cabin. He came up again looking even graver than when he left the deck.
Very few women, of good birth and education, make confidantes nowadays of their personal attendants; and the race of "Miggs" is chiefly confined to the class in which Dickens has placed it, if it is not extinct utterly.
I have made arrangements for you in an altered state of society, and mean to provide for you comfortably in life there! Will that satisfy you? 'Oh Simmun! cried Miss Miggs. 'Oh my blessed Simmun! Oh mim! what are my feelings at this conflicting moment!
'But, oh upon my word and honour, young Joseph Willet is a brave one; and he do deserve her, that he do. 'Woman! said Mr Tappertit, jumping off the counter on which he was seated; 'beware! 'My stars, Simmun! cried Miggs, in affected astonishment. 'You frighten me to death! What's the matter?
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