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"And pray, when may that by-and-bye be supposed to arrive?" "Oh! some day when I'm wounded or taken prisoner, and cannot do any thing else; then I shall read a good deal. Here's Captain Oughton Captain Oughton, do you read much?" "Yes, Mr Irving, I read a great deal." "Pray, may I take the liberty to ask you what you read?" "What I read!
A light air gradually swept the veil to leeward, and discovered both vessels to each other, at the distance of half a cable's length. Captain Oughton was with Newton on the poop, and the commander of the French corvette was standing on the hammock nettings of his own vessel. The latter took off his hat, and courteously saluted his adversary.
"The sooner the better, Mr Forster. He's but a 'rum customer, and 'a hard hitter' by all accounts. Clear up the decks, and beat to quarters." The strange vessel came down with such rapidity that, by the time the captain's orders were obeyed, she was not more than two miles distant. "There's 'instudding-sails; and in devilish good style too!" observed Captain Oughton.
Captain Oughton, who had reason to be highly satisfied with Newton, gave his consent in the kindest manner; "and, Forster, if you wish to remain, you have my permission. We will manage without you: only recollect, we sail on Thursday night."
The breeze was lulled by the concussion of the air; and both vessels continued in the same position, and at the same distance for upwards of an hour, pouring in their broadsides, every shot of which was effectual. "Now, this is what I call a reg'lar set-to. Fire away, my lads," cried Captain Oughton, rubbing his hands. "A proper rally this. Damn it, but he's game!"
Square the main-yard." As soon as the Windsor Castle was hove-to, the courses of the enemy were seen to flutter a few moments in the breeze, and then the canvas was expanded. When the vessel had gathered sufficient way, she hove in stays, and crossed the Windsor Castle on the opposite tack. "I thought so," observed Captain Oughton. "The fellow knows what he is about.
"And pray, when may that by-and-bye be supposed to arrive?" "Oh! some day when I am wounded or taken prisoner, and cannot do anything else; then I shall read a good deal. Here's Captain Oughton Captain Oughton, do you read much?" "Yes, Mr Irving, I read a great deal." "Pray, may I take the liberty to ask you what you read?" "What I read!
I overheard him repeating here in a kind of muttering tone, a line of the old ballad, Johnny Armstrong's Last Good Night: 'And ran him through the fair body ! We returned to my house, where there met him, at dinner, the Duchess of Douglas , Sir Adolphus Oughton, Lord Chief Baron, Sir William Forbes, Principal Robertson, Mr. Cullen , Advocate.
Their time for preparation was short; but one day more having been obtained from Captain Oughton, through the influence of Newton, Mrs Enderby and Isabel embarked, and the Windsor Castle spread her canvas, sailing away from pestilence and death. Newton Forster by Captain Marryat "Britannia needs no bulwark, No towers along the steep, Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep."
The guns were therefore properly secured; the decks washed; a jury mizzen-mast stuck up abaft; Captain Oughton, and the gallant fellows who had fallen in the combat, committed to the deep with the usual ceremonies; the wounded made as comfortable as possible in their hammocks; the carpenters busied with the necessary repairs; and the Windsor Castle, commanded by Newton Forster, running before a spanking breeze, at the rate of eight knots per hour.
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