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"See here, wife!" said Captain Pharo, completely broken down for we were all suffering, as usual, from the generic emptiness and craving of our natures for food "major says 't we're goin' up to git baited, afore I'm took to the dagarrier's." "I wish 't you could have your picture took jest as you look now, Captain Pharo Kobbe!" exclaimed his wife kindly and admiringly.
"Go and have a turn with Vesty yourself," said Fluke; "we'll keep up fiddling, change about, with the organ." Judah Kobbe, cousin and guest of the Pharo Kobbes, playing with such lively spirit and abandon that the very lamps danced upon the organ-brackets in untripping time with the feet of the dancers on the floor. I had already detected in the tone of society toward Mr. and Mrs.
But even had it contained something akin to the dark sequel on its label, I could not have refused it from Uncle Coffin's hand. Slightly I drank. Captain Pharo drank. Uncle Coffin drank. The bottle was replaced, and we as solemnly descended.
There were a few at Brooks's, and Hare in the chair to keep up the appearance of a pharo bank, but nobody to punt but the Duke of Rutland and Fish Craufurd. The whole manoeuvre, added to their patriotism, their politics, &c., &c., are incredible. I am going to dine to-day at Delme's; he has promised me some plum porridge. His son is to dine here with George.
We should have been very irate at the delay but for the remarkably good dinner they gave us.... We made a detour and went very slow at starting, to avoid a vessel sunk in the harbour, on which a provisional pharo is placed.
We went first to the house. There it became at once evident to me that, rather than preparing himself with oil and incense for the occasion, Captain Pharo had been undergoing severe and strict manipulations at the hands of his wife. He had on the flowered jacket, but as proof against the sea air until he should be photographed, Mrs.
Je rename a tout cela; les inconveniens en sont innombrables; all my play at present is confined to a rubber at whist, and a little Pharo with Ailsford, and perhaps two or three more. Le grand evenement c'est la perte or la gain de 50 or 80 guineas. 4 o'clock. Come home to dinner. No letters as yet come from Ireland. Lord Egremont tells me that Digby is sent after La Motte Piquet.
"We mustn't forgit the occasion, I s'pose," said Captain Pharo, our general, at length. "Poo! poo! hohum! I s'pose it's about time we was thinkin' o' goin' out to cheer the flag. Forwards, by clam! Poo! poo! hohum! Wal, wal "Sh!" said Mrs. Kobbe, deftly getting audience at his ear.
Captain Pharo, with heart-whole joy at the sight, lit his pipe and declared, with now beaming countenance: "It has been arranged, to crown this happy 'casion, for all our unmarried Basins over sixteen year o' age, not forgettin' widders under forty, to have a sleigh ride.
But when we arrived in view of the "Eliza Rodgers" and saw that the tide had so far receded that we must pick our way gingerly thither over the mud flats, by stepping on the sparsely scattered stones, Captain Pharo looked at me and took a stand. "Miss Pray," said he, "'f it 's agreeable to you, I'll hist ye up an' carry on ye over."
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