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The osprey has often to plunge beneath the water in the pursuit, and Nature has gifted him with power to do so, which, if I am not mistaken, she has denied to the eagles. The latter are therefore compelled, in some measure, to depend upon the former for a supply.
"Both have the right given them by the maker of them. The osprey was made to eat the fish, and the fish, I hope, get some good of being eaten by the osprey." "Excuse me, Captain Macruadh, but that seems to me simple nonsense!" said Christina. "I hope it is true." "I don't know about being true, but it must be nonsense." "It must seem so to most people." "Then why do you say it?"
"Who knocked you down?" "A Yankee!" "Heyday! Bull Run?" "No, sir; Crooked Inlet." "Well, I thought you looked like a seafaring man. What vessel do you belong to?" "The blockade-runner Hattie. She used to be the privateer Osprey." "Were you one of the brave fellows who captured the Mary Hollins?" exclaimed the surgeon, giving Marcy a look of admiration. "It was a gallant deed."
Still Carthew maintained his good temper, but Bertha could see that it was with an effort. He seemed to pay but little attention to the sailing of the Phantom, but kept his eyes intently fixed upon the Osprey. "I should not be surprised at some of us carrying away a spar before long," he said. "The wind is freshening, and we shall have to shift topsails and jibs, I fancy."
Long lines of melancholy woods shut both these rivers in; an osprey suddenly struck the surface of the water, like a drowning man, and rose as if it had escaped from some demon in the flood; the silence following his plunge was deeper than ever, till a goatsucker, noiselessly making his zigzag chase, cried, as if out of eternal gloom, his solemn command to "Whip poor Will."
Within the swirling water the great fish plunged: she watched, strung to the pounce; the net dipped and darted; she lifted it to land. Chevenix admired. "By George, you are a one er, I must say! Born to it. You strike like an osprey. That's a fish what?" They peered together into the net, where, coiled and massy, beaming rose and pale gold, the trout writhed.
"Our sympathies are rather divided, but I hope the Osprey will win." "Thank you, Lady Greendale, but I am by no means sanguine about it. "I fancy, Miss Haverley, that you and Miss Greendale will see the winning flag flying overhead when the race is over." "Why do you think so, Major?" Lord Haverley asked. "The general opinion is that your record is better than that of the Phantom.
Of course the high-spirited Marcy grew restive under such treatment; and when, after long waiting, the postmaster handed him a letter from Captain Beardsley, ordering him to report on board the Osprey without loss of time, he did not feel as badly over it as he once thought he should.
"'Where'd you say that fish was? asked Mr. Osprey. "'If you'll let me go, I'll show you, replied little Mr. Sparrow. "So Mr. Osprey let little Mr. Sparrow go, but he followed him right close. Mr. Sparrow led the way straight to the Smiling Pool. Sure enough, there was the big fish taking a sun-bath. Mr. Osprey hardly wet his feet putting those big hooks into that fish.
There was a girl at "The Breakers" who was rather apt to slop over, so that interview was timed for noon, when the sun dries up everything very quickly, including such by-products as tears. Then there was Miss Suydani to ride with at five o'clock on the beach, where the chain of destruction linked mullet and osprey and ended with the robber eagle and Malcourt if he chose.
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