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"Well, sir, I suppose you are right," said the man, with something like a sigh; "but you see, like some of my mates, I have seen a bit of sarvice in a King's ship, and we have got our guns on board, and we have just now been lying alongside I should say bow and stern of a Frenchman so as we could slew round and rake her; and it sets a man thinking.
"The same, sir, at your sarvice," said Teddy, with a respectful pull at his forelock. "They was used to call me Mister O'Donel when I was in the army, but I've guv that up long ago an' dropped the title wid the commission." "Indeed: then you were a commissioned officer?" inquired Jack, with a smile. "Be no manes. It was a slight longer title than that I had.
Then making us a ludicrous bow, he continued, "Ladies, I'm at yer sarvice; I only wish I could get a dispensation from the Pope, and I'd marry yeas all." The stewardess bolted the door, and the mad fellow kept up such a racket that we all wished him at the bottom of the Ontario. The following day was wet and gloomy.
"Is that fellow the Hardman you told us about?" asked Roswell. "The same at your sarvice." "And the man who robbed you of your money?" Tim flung one of his muscular legs over the other, and with a twinkle of the eyes said: "Hardman has made it all right; the matter is fixed atween oursilves." "Then he give you back your money?" was the inquiring remark of Jeff.
It was of him that the clerk said that ‘next Sunday there would be no Divine sarvice, as maaster was going to Newmarket.’ Once upon a time after a sermon one of his flock approached him, as he had been preaching on miracles, to ask him to explain what a miracle really was. The reverend gentleman gave his rustic inquirer a kick, adding, ‘Did you feel that?’ ‘Oh yes, sir; but what of that?’
Is not there a house in London? and is not there another in England, in the country? and, sure, I and mine can't live there and here and every where at once: if you'd just condescend to occupy one of them, you'd do me a great pleasure, and a great sarvice too; for every thing would be right, instead of going wrong, as it might under an agent, and me at a distance, that does not know well how to manage such great estates.
"What signifies a calling?" returned Boltrope, catching his breath after a most persevering draught: "a man's shins are his shins, let his upper works belong to what sarvice they may. I took an early prejudyce against knee-breeches, perhaps from a trick I've always had of figuring the devil as wearing them.
No, no, lad take back the stuff; it will do me no sarvice. I took kear to get all the Frenchman's powder afore he broke up, and they say lead grows where I'm going. It isn't even fit for wads, seeing that I use none but leather! Madam Effingham, let an old man kiss your hand, and wish God's choicest blessings on you and your'n." "Once more let me beseech you, stay!" cried Elizabeth.
The fact is like this here: None of us foremast hands understands anything about navigation, so we've been obliged to press young Ned into the sarvice; and we knows as how his heart ain't in the job, and Williams sort of suspects that he'd play us a scurvy trick if he dared.
This accounts for the clamorous call he received to give them a song of his own composition. Flannigan cleared his throat. "Ye do me honor," he said; "but I shall be happy to plase ye. I will at this time give yez the song I composed when I quit the sarvice and had made up my mind to come to Canada." I'll put by my musket, Also my red coat; On war and its glory I'll no longer gloat.
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