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Updated: June 14, 2025
"I really beg your pardon, doctor, but I could not be any quicker; for the captain ordered me to examine the vessel and see if I could find her papers." He thereupon described to Doctor Nettleby what the three of us had seen in the cabin; when that gentleman was as much shocked as we were. "Can I do anything, Jellaby?" he asked. "Are you sure they were all lifeless?"
He expressed the most fervent gratitude on my narrating how we had boarded his water-logged vessel and the difficulty Mr Jellaby had in releasing him from his dangerous position; and, he bowed his thanks to Doctor Nettleby, addressing him as "Senor Medico Mr Doctor," for his kind care of him.
"I humbly thank you for giving it to me when you have done with it I hate stale news. Is there any thing in the paper? for I cannot be at the trouble of hunting it." "Yes, my dear, there are the marriages of two of our friends " "Who? Who?" "Your friend the Widow Nettleby, to her cousin John Nettleby." "Mrs. Nettleby! Lord! but why did you tell me?" "Because you asked me, my dear."
Doctor Nettleby and I turned away, it being painful in the extreme to see a grown man such as he crying like a child; for his breast was heaving and his shoulders shaking with the sobs he endeavoured to conceal, and he hid his face in his hands as he leant back again in the chair. After a bit, on his becoming more composed again, the doctor gave him a stimulant, which quieted his nerves.
Good-day, Sir Thomas Parkes! Good-day, sweet Mistress Nettleby and Master Nettleby! Good-day, good-day, good-day!" for the richer folk were coming in at twopence each, and all the galleries were full. And then he heard the baker's boy with sugared cakes and ginger-nuts go stamping up the stairs. The musicians in the balcony overhead were tuning up.
Nettleby, to inform her of these intentions, and to bid her adieu till better times. Mrs. Nettleby sincerely regretted this interruption of their hourly correspondence; for she was deprived not only of the pleasure of hearing, but of making matrimonial complaints.
"By Jove we have got a thrashing!" said Commander Nesbitt, ruefully, next morning, when Dr Nettleby came to make his report as to the state of the wounded we had and there was a general counting up of losses. "I didn't think John Chinaman had it in him to make such a stand!"
Nettleby and our Griselda, could enjoy a full view of her countenance. "Lord bless me! it is getting late: I am afraid I am really afraid Mrs. Granby will not come."
Granby, "I should act absurdly, and he would act unjustly; but all that he requires is equality of rights, and the liberty of going where he pleases. She refuses to come to see you: he refuses to go to see Mr. John Nettleby. Which has the best of the battle?"
Nettleby replied, in his brutal way, that you might choose a residence where you would, except in his house; that his house was his castle, and should never be turned into an asylum for runagate wives; that he would not set such an example to his own wife, &c. But," continued Mrs. Nettleby, "you can imagine all the foolish things he said, and I need not repeat them, to vex you and myself.
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