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I witnessed with some sadness how Captain Pharo and Captain Judah were walking the room, arm-in-arm, Captain Judah reading from some of Angie Fay's most affecting strains, and Captain Pharo willingly melted to tears thereat. "Read that ag'in, Judah," I heard Captain Pharo snivel, as they were passing me. Then I heard the melodramatic snuffle of that "Adieu! farewell! adieu!"
"Then I'll tell ye what ructions be," proceeded Captain Pharo, breathing stertorously through his pipe; "it's repealin' all our optional acts, for one thing! We can't institoot an optional act down here, but what you go an' repeal it!" "Oh, stuff!" said the high and hot-headed young man, quite taken off his level by the laughter round him; "I don't either!"
But Robert Strong and Dorothy shared my feelin's of reverence for a tree whose mighty branches might have shaded the head of our Lord and whose leaves might have rustled with the wind that swept the brow of Napoleon and Cæsar and Pharo for all I knew. There wuz some natives burnin' camphor flowers before it and some on 'em had hung up little lamps in its branches.
Judah Kobbe that they were awesome cosmopolites from some source. I now learned that they were from a crowded mart called Machias. Captain Pharo also told me mysteriously, in the pauses of his pipe, "'t they was l'arneder 'n any fish 't swims;" so I gazed at them with wonder from a distance, but did not much dream that it would be for me to speak with them.
"Dodrabbit ye, major!" said he, punching me with a vigorous hand, "don't ye take no interest in a man's stock? Come along out and look at the stock." At that I rose and followed him. Captain Pharo was waiting for us.
Still farther down the room sobs were echoed back to me from Captain Pharo's bursting heart. So that I was gratified, at the next round, to hear Captain Pharo declare that he felt the necessity of going home at once to have a copy of the verses made and "a ya-ard built around 'em, Judah." "Come!" Gurdon whispered to Fluke; "we should give up playing at this hour, and take those girls home."
This Pharo Bank is held in a manner which, being so exposed to public view, bids defiance to all decency and police. The whole town as it passes views the dealer and the punters, by means of the candles, and the windows being levelled with the ground. The Opposition, who have Charles for their ablest advocate, is quite ashamed of the proceeding, and hates to hear it mentioned.
I knew to what he referred, what gratitude was moving in his breast. "Wal, thar now, Cap'n Pharo Kobbe! ain't Vesty Kirtland worthy?" "Vesty!" said the captain, undismayed "Vesty 's an amazin' gal, but she ain't nowheres along o' major!" "Wal, I must say! I wonder whatever put you in such a takin' to major." He did not say.
And she said she was so glad that she had seen for herself the great truth that the Pharo spirit of injustice and cruelty wuz crushed forever. But Robert said that Pharo's cruelty sprang from unlimited power and from havin' absolute control over a weaker and helpless class; he said that would arouse the Pharo spirit in any man.
I spoze that from that time on all the dark-eyed little Egyptian maids in that school wuz lookin' out anxiously to see some prince comin' in and claim 'em and make a royal princess of 'em. But one swallow don't make a spring; I don't spoze there has been or will be agin such a romance. Josiah said that we must not leave Cairo without seein' Pharo.
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