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One of his dreams was the marriage of these two. Episodes like this only showed him the clearer what lay in their hearts. The doctor's anxiety and Jane's struggle to bear her burdens outside of his touch and help only confirmed the old sea-dog in his determination. When Bart had his way, he said to himself, all this would cease.
Any ordinary man would have been seriously damaged at least in appearance by such an accident; but this particular sea-dog was tough in the skin he was only awakened by it nothing more. He yawned, raised himself lazily, and gazed round with that vacant stare of unreasonable surprise which is common to man on passing from a state of somnolence to that of wakefulness.
But, as I have said before, if he has not already made acquaintance with the ice-barrier.” “What makes you think so?” “Everything and nothing, Mr. Jeorling. One feels these things; one doesn’t think them. Hunt is an old sea-dog, who has carried his canvas bag into every corner of the world.”
There he sat, for hours after supper that night, broader and more sunburnt than ever, with his brilliant eyes glancing round as he talked, and his sinewy man's hand, in the delicate creamy ruff, making little explanatory movements, and drawing a map once or twice in spilled wine on the polished oak; the three ladies sat forward and watched him breathlessly, or leaned back and sighed as each tale ended, and Anthony found himself, too, carried away with enthusiasm again and again, as he looked at this gallant sea-dog in his gold chain and satin and jewels, and listened to his stories.
Yes, sir," with quiet gusto, "reck'n we saw all the best that was goin in our time, and not a bad time neether for them as like it, that's to say: seamen and such." He was silent for a time, chewing his memories. And what memories they were! Had he not sailed under Boscawen in the fifties, when that old sea-dog stood between England and Invasion?
I nodded energetically, for after his comment I thought it best to hold my tongue. 'Very good. Now, am I right or am I wrong in supposing that you feel pretty sure at this moment that you are looking upon that same old sea-dog, Marmaduke Amber?
I shall have been to sea two years come next month," was the reply. "Two years, eh! Why, you are a perfect veteran, a regular old sea-dog, Francisco," continued Courtenay as he exhaled a wreath of pale-blue smoke from his pursed-up lips and watched it go curling in fantastic wreaths up through the open sky-light. "And have you been all that time in the Pinta?" "Yes, senor, all that time.
"They're not like us dull men, Miss Callender," was the sailor's unlucky reply, "they can rise to any occasion a lady can make." "Ladies don't make occasions, Lieutenant." "Oh, don't they!" laughed the sea-dog to Hilary. But duty called. "No, no, Miss Val ! Don't try that plank alone! Captain Kincaid, will you give ? That's right, sir.... Now, Captain Irby, you and Miss Callender steady!"
Two Washington ladies official ladies were on board, and the captain, old British sea-dog that he was, always had trouble in the matter of precedence with Washington ladies. Capt. Rice never had any bother with the British aristocracy, because precedence is all set down in the bulky volume of "Burke's Peerage," which the captain kept in his cabin, and so there was no difficulty.
Whitman spares us all allusions to the cochineal; he treats evil and sorrow in a spirit almost as of welcome; as an old sea-dog might have welcomed the sight of the enemy's topsails off the Spanish Main. There, at least, he seems to say, is something obvious to be done.
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