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"Why, sir it seemed as though he wouldn't mind going a hundred miles out to sea in an old shoe to nab a ship for the firm. If the business had been his own and all to make yet, he couldn't have done more in that way. And now . . . all at once . . . like this! Thinks I to myself: 'Oho! a rise in the screw that's the trouble is it? 'All right, says I, 'no need of all that fuss with me, Jimmy.
Such was the legend attached to the little cell, and tradition went on to say that the anchoress broke her leg in crossing Whalley Nab, and limped ever afterwards; a just judgment on such a heinous offender. Both these little structures were picturesque objects, being overgrown with ivy and woodbine.
In front were the purple hills of the Isle of Wight, with the white- terraced Ryde lying in between, its houses lit up likewise by the rays of the sunset, and their windows all aflame; and, under their feet, stretching away to where it met the hills opposite and to the harbour's mouth and Haslar breakwater on the right, with the now twinkling Nab light on the extreme left, was the dancing, murmuring, restless sea, its hue varying every instant, from the rich crimson and gold it reflected from the western horizon to the darker shades of evening that came creeping up steadily from the eastward, blotting out by degrees its previous bright tones.
At the sound of my voice there was a sharp little bark from behind, such as Nab alone could give when I had an exceptionally delicate morsel for him. I turned quickly, and saw at a distance his shining dog-shaped head. "Fish, Nab, a fine shad for you, fish!" I coaxed. He came a little nearer, and I was confident the bait would prove irresistible.
He went on to say that the only way to nab a horse-thief or an express robber was to go right up to him, don't you know, like the little boy went up to the sign-post that he thought was a ghost. "It's a good theory and generally works. I told him so, and then apologized for doing any other way. The way I thought about this business of a deputy marshal's was the way an old soldier thinks about war.
The lieutenant took one, two, three glasses, one after another, to recover himself. The corporal had really frightened him. He was convinced that Smallbones had a charmed life. Did he not float to the Nab buoy and back again? did not a pistol ball pass through him without injury?
If you would just stroll down by the lake after chapel, and loiter sort of inconspicuously among the trees, you know, I would come that way a little later, and then, when the detective person came along after me, you could just nab her and " "Chuck her in the lake?" asked Bonnie. "No, of course not. Don't use any force. Just politely detain her till you hear us yelling take her for a walk.
I exclaimed, in an excited whisper. "Now, Bob, let's dash alongside and board the craft; a selection from the rig of those two men will make exactly the rig I want." "All right," returned Bob. "You're the skipper, give the word, and we'll nab the Mossoos in a jiffy." "Now!" said I. We dashed our oars into the water, and in half a dozen strokes were alongside the astonished fishermen.
He went through the pockets of Ed, and took a bundle of papers that was inside his coat, and this he stuffed away in his own clothes. Then he turned to me, and his voice was like a lamb. "Jack, old man," he said, "I can't help you. They're going to nab you, but not for murder. The expressman there will be your witness. It isn't murder anyhow on my part, but self-defence.
For the last ten years I've been saying to myself, 'Here we are: this time I've got him! ... At last I'm going to nab him. But I've said that day after day," said Guerchard; and he paused. "Well?" said the Duke. "Well, the days pass; and I never nab him. Oh, he is thick, I tell you.... He's a joker, he is ... a regular artist" he ground his teeth "The damned thief!"
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