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Updated: August 15, 2024
The choice Captain Lovet made of an engineer, or architect and surveyor, may seem a strange one. He deputed to that office John Rudyerd, a silk-mercer who kept a shop on Ludgate Hill. It does not appear that this Rudyerd had been bred to any scientific profession.
"And if it be so, what then?" said Rudyerd with a smile; "you don't suppose they'll fire a broadside at an unfinished lighthouse, do you? or are you afraid they'll take the Eddystone Rock in tow, and carry you into a French port?" "I don't know, sir," replied Williamson with an offended look; "I only thought that as we are at war with France just now, it was my duty to report what I had seen."
Make the change by all means." "Please, sir," said Williamson, approaching at that moment, "I've just been at the top of the building an' observed a French schooner bearing down from the south-west." "Well, what of that?" demanded Rudyerd. "Why, sir," said Williamson with some hesitation in his manner, "p'raps it's a man-of-war, sir."
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