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To the last, he had an interest in sea matters, and spoke with enthusiasm of Lord Nelson. But the literary use he made of his nautical experience ended with "Black-eyed Susan." He was a boy when he came ashore and threw himself on the very different sea of London; and it is the influence of London that is most perceptible in his mature works.
There were in the hut, when the three visitors entered, old Dobelle, his wife, a daughter of eighteen, another of four, and two sons of twenty and twenty-two respectively. "It looks like dirty weather," said Jenkins on entering; "will you let us come to an anchor here for a bit?" "Give us shelter?" explained Archie, who doubted old Dobelle's ability to understand nautical language.
The young man fancied that yachting would suit him; and he proposed to Squire Moses Scarburn, the trustee of all his property, to purchase a cheap vessel for his use. The spiriting away of his mother gave a new importance to the nautical fancy of the young man. Captain Ringgold condemned the plan to buy a cheap vessel.
Mike had found a fishing-line somewhere, and pretended to cast from the bow. "Ship ahoy!" he cried, when he saw us, and his instructions to the driver were purely nautical. "Hard astern!" he yelled, going down a hill, and instead of "Gee" or "Haw" he shouted "Port" or "Starboard."
Fortunately, while the youth was bestowing a hearty nautical greeting on Mrs Lilly for his greeting was always hearty, as well to new acquaintances as to old friends Hester had time to bend over her work and thus conceal the sudden pallor followed by an equally sudden flush which changed her complexion from a bluish grey to a burnt sienna.
It was in a state of great excitement that Newton waited for her return, when the second mate informed him that on his approach he discovered that she was a flush vessel, pierced for fourteen guns, painted black, and apparently well manned; that she evidently, to use a nautical term, was "gutting" the neutral; and that, as they had witnessed, on their boat coming within range, the vessel had fired a round of grape, which fortunately fell short of them.
"Oh, I think Krill murdered the woman and then cut to London. That accounts for his looking over his shoulder, etc., about which we talked." "But how did he get money to start as a bookseller? Premises are not leased in Gwynne Street for nothing." "Well, he might have got money on the brooch." "No. The brooch was pawned by a nautical gentleman." Paul started up. "Captain Jessop, perhaps.
The "Marine Artist," for example, with his canvas slung from davits and the entire furniture of his studio of extremely nautical design, was a purely fanciful conception. The "Pot-Boiler," spending his days in painting one solitary subject over and over again ad infinitum, comes nearer to life, though his portrait again is an exaggerated fancy rather than a study from life.
So he answered the captain evasively, returning the glass and pleading his ignorance of nautical matters to excuse his indefinite opinion. "It must be the Carrysford, with Hythe's squadron; she is a thirty-two. But why they should act this way, I cannot see.
Since all the English naval ports are considerably farther than this from our coast, the difficulties of carrying on the blockade will be enormously increased. That appears to be the reason why the estuary at Harwich has recently been transformed into a strong naval harbour. It is considered the best harbourage on the English coast, and is hardly 300 nautical miles from the German coast.
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