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Updated: May 27, 2025
Had Sir M. Walladmor been addicted to trembling, he would now have trembled: with earnest gaze, and outstretched arms, he listened without speaking to the stranger, who continued: "You talked together, until the moon was setting; and then, when the work was done Sir Morgan when the work was done, a shot was fired: and in the twinkling of an eye up sprang the sea-fencible; and he cried aloud, as I do now, Farewell!
About midnight a man in the uniform of a sea-fencible joined you: and you may remember some conversation you had with him?"
When he had done speaking he drew rather a heavy sigh. 'What's the matter, Bob? 'I haven't been yet to offer myself as a sea-fencible, and I ought to have done it long ago. 'You are only one. Surely they can do without you? Bob shook his head. She arose from her restful position, her eye catching his with a shamefaced expression of having given way at last.
Composed of seafaring men too old, too feeble, or too diseased to excite the cupidity of the most zealous lieutenant who eked out his pay on impress perquisites; of lads but recently embarked on the adventurous voyage of their teens; of pilots willing, for a consideration, to forego the pleasure of running ships aground; of fishermen who evaded His Majesty's press under colour of Sea-Fencible, Militia, or Admiralty protections; and of unpressable foreigners whose wives bewailed them more or less beyond the seas, this scratch crew the Preventive Men of the merchant service here awaited the preconcerted signal which should apprise them that their employer's ship was ready for a change of hands.
Not being able to decide whether to enrol himself as a sea-fencible, a local militia-man, or a volunteer, he simply went on dancing attendance upon Anne. Mrs.
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