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The change made, and you may believe no play-house actor of them all ever doffed or donned a costume quicker, we bound our luckless captive hand and foot, pinned him face downward in the sward, and so leaving him with only his boots for a memento, happily for him the night was no more than goose-flesh cool, we raced back to our peeping-place on the skirting of the camp ground.
We turned our heads, for a voice rang from the look-out "Man overboard from the whaleboat!" The men were so excited, and crowded so together, that I could hardly find a peeping-place. "He's got him." "Nay, they're both gone." "Man! I'm just thinking that it's ill interfering with the designs of Providence. We may lose Peter and not save Paul." "Stow your discourses, Sandy!"
The organ-blower, who was working his musical air-pump with one hand, and with two fingers and a thumb of the other insinuating a peeping-place through the curtain of the organ-gallery, was struck motionless by the double operation of curiosity and fear; while the organist, intent only on his performance, and spreading all his fingers to strike a swell of magnificent chords, felt his harmonic spirit ready to desert his body on being answered by the ghastly rattle of empty keys, and in the consequent agitato furioso of the internal movements of his feelings, was preparing to restore harmony by the segue subito of an appoggiatura con foco with the corner of a book of anthems on the head of his neglectful assistant, when his hand and his attention together were arrested by the scene below.
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