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There he was welcomed by his cronies, who had missed him sorely; or said so, at any rate. Captain Barker went to pack his handbag. When Narcissus returned he was gone. Captain Runacles was gone also. "Any orders?" said Narcissus to Simeon. "Not as I know by." Narcissus went back to the Fish and Anchor. The two friends entered The Hague, brisking up their pace and stepping gallantly abreast.
By their gestures they seemed to be engaged in an acrimonious discussion. Narcissus, little heeding, stolidly poked the bonfire with a charred stake. "I will not!" said Captain Runacles. "But I say that you shall!" said Captain Barker. "The lad is yours, and yours only." "He is yours also." "By a cast of dice you won him." "By law he was given back to you." "You have brought him up."
"But, dear me if you'll allow me to speak I am not talking of myself." "No?" "No; I am not the child's legal guardian." "I congratulate you. But who is it, then?" "It is you, Captain Runacles." "What!" The Captain leapt up and glared at Mr. Finch incredulously. "Here is a copy of the will; read for yourself.
Captain Runacles caught him by the coat-tails, and tore him back. "Now listen; you're not to speak; you're not to ask questions; you're not to open your mouth. You've just to come that's all." He took the little man and hurried him ashore. He was breathless; but he ran Captain Barker over the gang-plank like a charging bull. "One moment, Jemmy Jemmy! Damme I will ask !"
La Merveille was the first to come up, and, striking fairly at her stern, riddled her windows with a gust of artillery and prepared to board: a feat that was thrice prevented by Captain Runacles and a couple of dozen marines, English and Dutch. Then followed Captain Denoyre with the Sanspareil, who approached from the starboard side and lost both his masts as he did so.
Query: If the biscuit should be boiled in the milk, or milk merely poured over the biscuit " Here he glanced up, and seeing the anguish on the hunchback's face, handed back the book. "I beg your pardon, Jack. But get your hat and come along." "You forget, Jemmy. We gave our word, you know." Captain Runacles stared. "Trouble has unhinged your wits, my friend.
"Sirs, sirs!" cried the young ensign; "remember you are in his Majesty's park." But before his sentence was out the two swords were crossed, and the old gentlemen attacking each other with the unregulated ardour of a pair of schoolboys. "Jerry, Jerry," murmured Captain Barker, "you never had much science, but this is fool-work." Captain Runacles heard, straightened his arm and controlled himself.
Captain Runacles and his heroes then ran back and entrenched themselves in the forecastle; and to advance to close the hatchway was certain death. Nor were they forced to surrender until long after the English flag was hauled down: and, indeed, were only silenced when M. de la Pailletine hit on the happy idea of setting fifty men to work with axes to lay open the frigate's deck.
He was clearly in something of a hurry, and strode past our hero as if unaware of his presence, but turned on his heel at the end of the passage and came swiftly back. "I ask your pardon, young man," he began, in a quick, foreign voice, "but I thought I heard his Majesty speaking to you of a Captain Runacles as I entered the room.
If they do happen to desire anything good in itself, it's always to please some man or another. Sophia, I ask you if, for your own sake, and for the sake of knowledge, you will be my pupil; if you care to pursue " Captain Runacles checked himself, not because he had any idea that he was talking over the head of a girl of seven, but because a general proposition had occurred to him.
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