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Updated: June 21, 2025
But the good dame's social condition as a sea-captain's widow led her to think she could talk French to me, and her attempts made me wonder which of us knew least of that language. And then a most disturbing incident occurred we missed Robber, who must have run away at the door instead of following us into the house.
Her mind was bent on pursuits of a far loftier and more engrossing nature. In respect to the weather except on Sabbath mornings, when it was impossible to credit Grandpa with perfect fairness and impartiality of judgment Grandma, it must be said, had real faith in the old sea-captain's prognostications. "It does look like a shower, and a mighty sudden one," said Emily.
Florette did not know herself, whether she owed the name of sibyl to her skill in telling fortunes by cards, or to her wise counsel. Twelve years before, while still sharing the tent of the Walloon captain Grandgagnage, it had been given her, she could not say how or by whom. The fortune-telling she had learned from a sea-captain's widow, with whom she had lodged a long time.
In a crevice of the wall beside it, hidden jealously from the passer-by, lay the other half of that perpetual entertainment it provided a store of tiny boats fashioned by David, and another friend, the lame minister of the 'Christian Brethren' congregation at Clough End, the small factory town just below Kinder, who was a sea-captain's son, and with a knife and a bit of deal could fashion you any craft you pleased.
"You're a real little sailor's lass, or rather, a sea-captain's lass, if you love the sea so well!" said Uncle John, well pleased with her excitement and delight. He stopped that they might watch the incoming tide for a few moments, then off over the road they sped. "Here we are!" he cried, when after a half hour's more ride, they turned in at the driveway of a fine shore villa.
How they had ruled those ships, and been the ablest ship-masters of their day, with nobody to question their decisions! There is no such absolute monarchy as a sea-captain's. He is a petty king, indeed, as he sails the high seas from port to port.
Her hair, under a white knitted cap, was smooth and well-groomed. In fact, the totality of impression she conveyed was of a well-groomedness one would not expect of a sea-captain's daughter, much less of a woman who had been sea-sick. Life! that is the key of her, the essential note of her life and health.
The message was brief and abrupt, like a sea-captain's command: "Ship Trinidad wrecked off Wildcat's Beach, all hands lost, no insurance!" Do you recollect, when sitting alone sometimes in your room, at midnight, in the month of November, how, after a lull in the blast, the bleak wind will all at once seem to clutch at the windows, with a demoniac howl that makes the house rock?
His brown, grey-streaked beard was longer than customary and ragged in outline; his eyebrows projected like a sea-captain's; his almost bald head seemed to be stretched tight over a framework of knobs and bumps; his clothes were baggy and shapeless. But all these unessentials faded away from sight when Dr Hegelmann spoke.
The latter recounted and enlarged upon the insults he had just now suffered. His hearer fanned the flame of indignation with comment and innuendo recognized Faircloth from the description, and proceeded to wash his hands in scandalous insinuation at the young sea-captain's expense.
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