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"Well," said I, when we were seated, "what have you to tell? Anything wonderful? If it isn't, you'd better let me tell you about my fish." "Fish!" exclaimed Rectus, not very respectfully. "Fish, indeed!" said Corny. "We have seen a queen!" "Queen of what?" said I. "Queen of Africa," replied Corny. "At least a part of it, she would be, I mean, if she had stayed there.
I thought I'd better say a word or two now, because I didn't know where Rectus would fetch us up next, if we should give him another chance, and so I said to the governor that I knew Goliah Brown would make no objections to the plan, because we had talked it over with him, and he had agreed to it. "Well, then, what do you want that I should do for you?" said the governor to Corny.
"I don't believe Porker-miller can do that," said Rectus, "but I guess she can pad her chair." "Do thrones rock?" asked Corny. "Some of 'em do," I said. "There was the throne of France, you know." "Well, then, that will be all right," said Corny; "and how about a crown and sceptre?" "Oh, we wont want a sceptre," I said; "that sort of thing's pretty old-fashioned.
While Rectus and I were dressing, for he got up at the same time that I did, our captain came to us, and brought me a little package of greenbacks. "The master of the bark gave me these," said the captain, "and said they were pinned in your watch-pocket. He has had them dried and pressed out for you." There it was, all the money belonging to Rectus and myself, which, according to old Mr.
"Who's going to Mobile? Do you suppose that we are? Not a bit of it. When I proposed that trip, I didn't propose it for Mrs. Chipperton, or Corny, or myself, or you, or Rectus, or Tom, or Dick, or Harry. I proposed it for all of us. If all of us cannot go, none of us can. If you must go north this morning, so must we. We've nothing to pack, and that's a comfort. Nine o'clock, did you say?
His father was very rich, and we all thought that Rectus was taken away to be brought up as a partner in the firm. But we really knew nothing about it: for, as I found out afterward, Rectus spent all his time, after he left school, in studying music. Soon after my trip was all agreed upon and settled, father had to go to New York, and there he saw Mr. Colbert, and of course told him of my plans.
Her father had gone out fishing with some gentlemen, and her mother would not walk in the sun, and, besides, she had something to say to us. So we all walked to the fort and sat down on the wide wall of the water-battery. Rectus bestrode one of the cannon that stood pointing out to sea, but Corny told him she wanted him to get down and sit by her, so that she wouldn't have to shout.
As far as my own feelings were concerned, I think I would have preferred to travel about on a level with Rectus, and to have a good time with him, as two old school-fellows might easily have, even if one did happen to be two years older than the other. But that would not be earning my salary.
And father and I'll be sure to be here early to-morrow to go out fishing with you. Good-bye!" And with this, having mounted the steps to the pier, off ran Miss Corny. "I wouldn't like to be the ole man o' that family," said Mr. Menendez. That night, after we had gone to bed, Rectus began to talk.
There was now a good deal of noise on deck. "Perhaps we have run into some vessel and sunk her," said Rectus, opening the door, with his coat over his arm. He was in an awful hurry to see. "Hold up here!" I said. "Don't you go on deck in this storm without an overcoat. If there has been a collision, you can't do any good, and you needn't hurry so. Button up warm."
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