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He found their community increased to about seventy-nine, all exhibiting the same unsophisticated and amiable characteristics as we have before described. Other two Englishmen had settled amongst them; one of them, called Nobbs, a low-bred, illiterate man, a self-constituted missionary, who was endeavoring to supersede Buffett in his office of religious instruction.
'When I looked round after a minute, providentially indeed, for the boat was being pulled right into a small bay on the reef, and would have grounded, I saw Pearce lying between the thwarts, with the long shaft of an arrow in his chest, Edwin Nobbs with an arrow as it seemed in his left eye, many arrows flying close to us from many quarters.
"If we had only tipped His Nobbs off the ship on the way over." "I suggested that to Ned," Frank answered, "but he only laughed at me. He declared the fellow to be the missing link between himself and the principals in the Gatun dam plot." "What's the answer?" demanded Jack, with a puzzled air.
The 16 captives were all shot with the exception of Lieutenant Nobbs and three English seamen; these four saw their fellow prisoners led out from time to time, and heard the reports of the muskets that disposed of them. Ever afterwards he retained a vivid memory of that dreadful fusillade.
"Hobbs hints blue, straight he turtle eats; Nobbs prints blue, claret crowns his cup." But it was Hughes who "fished the murex up," who pulled "interests" out of the deep blue sea of verbal fuddlement. And thinking of our dollars, thanks to Mr. Hughes, we are made sane and whole, clearsighted and unafraid, standing erect among the nations of the earth asking lustily for Yap.
"An' Mister Nobbs," shouted a voice. "An' Mister Joe Binney," said another. "An' little Mister Buxley, be way of variashun," cried Teddy Malone. "An' Mistress Lynch, for a change," growled Jabez Jenkins. "Hear, hear! No, no! Hurrah! Nonsense! Howld yer tongue! Be serious!" gradually drowned in a confusion of tongues with a yelling accompaniment from infantry in the outer circle.
The bridegrooms wore white trousers, shirts, &c., the brides wore pretty simple dresses and flowers in their hair. We crowded as many persons as possible into our little Chapel. Mr. Nobbs and some ten or twelve of our Pitcairn friends were all the visitors that we could manage to make room for. 'Great festivities followed, a large pig was killed yesterday and eaten to-day, and Mr.
Now it happened that among the gentlemen who knew him, were two of the flatterers who supped with him in the first chapter of this narrative namely, Messrs. Narcissus Nobbs and Solomon Jenks: the former of whom it will be recollected, was enthusiastic in his praises of Frank, upon that occasion, while the latter boisterously professed for him the strongest attachment and friendship.
Now and then he bent his head forward toward the door, and once, when Jimmie snorted out in his sleep, he darted a hand toward his hip, as if reaching for a weapon. "His Nobbs, or his substitute, has arrived," thought Ned. After a moment the man left the porch, closing the outer door carefully behind him. Ned was out of bed in an instant, following on after him.
One day, as I was sitting by his bed, he says, `Saunders, the doctor's coming round, just tell him I want to make my will, for I feel as if I were slipping my wind. Well, the doctor and the chaplain both came to his bedside with the paper, and Nobbs raised himself on his elbow, and said, `Are you ready, sir? Well, then, I'll make short work of it.
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