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Ay," he continued, as soon as he had ousted me from the stool and spoon, "they're fine, halesome food they're grand food, parritch." He murmured a little grace to himself and fell to. "Your father was very fond of his meat, I mind; he was a hearty, if not a great eater; but as for me, I could never do mair than pyke at food."
"Then, what I have got to say, Captain Pyke, is, that I'll not allow them to be deserted, and that I intend to carry out my resolution with a pretty strong argument the instant the anchor leaves the ground I'll shoot you through the head." "Mutiny! mutiny!" shouted the captain, starting back, "seize this man and heave him overboard."
'It has, Pluck, answered the other gentleman. 'We have regretted it very often, I believe, Pyke? said the first gentleman. 'Very often, Pluck, answered the second. 'But now, said the first gentleman, 'now we have the happiness we have pined and languished for. Have we pined and languished for this happiness, Pyke, or have we not? 'You know we have, Pluck, said Pyke, reproachfully.
Pyke was a brave cheerful lad, a splendid operator and telephone expert. He was thoroughly posted in wireless work and used to rig up an attachment to our telephone by means of which he could read all the wireless messages that came over the wires from the ships of the Navy in the Channel to the naval batteries that were working behind our lines which were called the Admiral Churchill batteries.
'Mrs Wititterly is quite a martyr, observed Pyke, with a complimentary bow. 'I THINK I am, said Mrs Wititterly, smiling. 'I think you are, my dear Julia, replied her husband, in a tone which seemed to say that he was not vain, but still must insist upon their privileges.
Mr Pyke declared that he wanted to find an enemy more worthy of his and his troops' prowess than he had hitherto encountered. "We will give you a chance," said the captain. "I have discovered from some of the prisoners that there is a town on the shores of a bay not far off, which is unprotected by forts.
Unmoved, unchanged! This, by the way, was a very remarkable circumstance, miniatures being liable to so many changes of expression 'Oh, Pluck! Pluck! Mr Pluck made no other reply than kissing Mrs Nickleby's hand with a great show of feeling and attachment; Mr Pyke having done the same, both gentlemen hastily withdrew.
The captain, hearing what he had said, backed by Lieutenant Pyke and one of the other officers, declared that he would shoot him through the head if he did any such thing. During the night, two boats came off with our former visitors and four others, all bringing a large supply of dollars.
It was in vain for Kate to protest that she was unwell, for the footsteps of the knockers, whoever they were, were already on the stairs. She resumed her seat, and had scarcely done so, when the doubtful page darted into the room and announced, Mr Pyke, and Mr Pluck, and Lord Verisopht, and Sir Mulberry Hawk, all at one burst.
It is needless to say, that Pyke and Co. responded, with great warmth of manner, to this proposal, or that the toast was drunk with many little insinuations from the firm, relative to the completeness of Sir Mulberry's conquest.
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