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Updated: June 11, 2025
"Will your Majesty be good enough to note the likeness between us?" "I do not doubt your word. I merely remark that the two gentlemen who then interceded for him omitted to mention his parentage." "Their names, I believe " "They were two gallant but wrong-headed gentlemen of his late Majesty's navy Captain John Barker and Captain Jeremiah Runacles."
Obviously, for this purpose, the fleet would need, on the spot, capable officers to step into the shoes of the deposed Dutchmen." "You propose that Jack and I shall be two of these officers?" asked Captain Runacles slowly, with a glance at his comrade. "I think it advisable that you should be at The Hague. You understand that I merely sketch out a possible course of events." "Of course.
The Earl broke off and looked at the two captains narrowly. "Did you know that?" he asked. There was no answer. "I seem to remember an expression which you, Captain Runacles, let fall this afternoon. You told his Majesty that Tristram Salt owned large estates. Is the boy's father aware of this?" Again he paused for an answer, but none came. "These estates are administered under trust, I presume.
"My lord of Marlborough," said the King, turning coldly from the little man and pointing with his gloved hand towards Tristram, "allow me to present you with a recruit." Captain Barker's face was twisted with a spasm of fury. But as he stammered for words another voice was lifted, and Captain Runacles came through the crowd. He had been fetched from his laboratory by Mr.
"You put it crudely, Captain Runacles. I believe that our gallant soldiers will act with a single eye to their country's welfare; and I am sure they will do nothing that can be constructed as a blot upon their country's flag." "I also am tolerably certain of that, my lord," answered Captain Jemmy drily. "Come, Jack your answer?"
And the reason for this was the very simple one that he himself knew nothing about it, Captain Barker and Captain Runacles having long ago agreed to keep it a secret from him until he should come of age. They had arrived at this resolution after many weeks of discussion, and beyond a doubt their wisdom had been justified in the course of the last hour.
If that unfortunate youth hadn't been making love to you when he should have been attending to the bees, the chances are they would never have taken it into their heads to swarm upon that accursed arch, and consequently . . ." There was nothing which Captain Runacles enjoyed so thoroughly as to discover the connection between effects and their causes.
"Then I will deliver it myself. You do not appear to know me " "Not from Adam." "My name is Cornelius van Adrienssen, and you, Captain Runacles, once flung a boot at my head." "Did I, indeed! It was in a moment of extreme irritation, no doubt." "We were engaged off the Texel June the 5th, '71, was the date. You were on board the Galloper, I on the Zeelandshoop. Night parted us "
He led them between a couple of gigantic trees, glanced around him, and asked suddenly: "The young man, I presume, gave you my message?" "Now, what in the world " began Captain Runacles with a bewildered stare. But the little hunchback was quicker. "What young man, sir?" he cried sharply. "Do you mean Tristram Salt?"
Before Captain Runacles could resent this, the little man turned his back and took six paces to the party hedge and six paces back. "I say, Jemmy, do you think we could fight?" "Not decently." "I was thinking that. I don't see another way out of it, though." He kicked the plantain out of the ground, and, looking up, said very softly "Meg's a widow."
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