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At first the neighbours gave out sinister suspicions as to Jean's intentions, for sea-going with your own wife was uncommon among the sailors of the coast. But at last these dark suggestions settled down into a belief that Jean took her chiefly for ballast; and thereafter she was familiarly called "Femme de Ballast." Talking was no virtue in her eyes.
They had their hands full nearer home; and they thoroughly, and as it were by instinct, understood the conditions on which permanent expansion must rest. They wanted to make sure of the line of communication first. To effect this a sea-going marine of both war and commerce and, for further expansion, stations on the way were essential.
Towards evening the Inflexible got within point-blank shot of the Americans, "when five broadsides," wrote Douglas, "silenced their whole line." One fresh ship, with scantling for sea-going, and a concentrated battery, has an unquestioned advantage over a dozen light-built craft, carrying one or two guns each, and already several hours engaged.
Ordinarily say, if 'twas anything to be done out to sea he'd have said, 'Why, of course, Kiley; go ahead and do it, But this was in a navy yard, ashore, and when he gets a note with something about regulations in it, he begins to haul to. "And many a good sea-going old skipper is bluffed the same way about anything that spells regulations, you betcher.
Chinese deck-stewards glided about in their felt slippers, trying to attach the right person to the right steamer-chair. Cabin-boys scurried about with baskets of fruit and flowers and other sea-going impedimenta that, after one appreciative glance from the recipient, are usually consigned to the ice-box. All was noise and confusion.
The reserve ships had long been unfit to put to sea, the reserve crews had, for all practical purposes, become landsmen landsmen among whom want of sea-going discipline had of late produced many mutinous outbreaks.
Being intended for coast defence only, they always had a harbour available in bad weather, and sails were not required as they were never far from a coal supply. In 1869, however, Sir Edward Reed designed the first sea-going turret-ships, properly so-called, taking the bold step, as it seemed then, of providing no sails.
It was enlivened at frequent intervals, day and night, by the sirens of tugs bringing strings of barges to the docks, whence their cargo was borne overseas in the sea-going tramps, or, of course, taking equally long strings to the Seine for Rouen and Paris.
He had never had a mate that suited him so well," I answered him earnestly, without any affectation, that I certainly hadn't been so comfortable in any ship or with any commander in all my sea-going days. "Well then," he murmured. "Haven't you heard, Captain Giles, that I intend to go home?" "Yes," he said benevolently. "I have heard that sort of thing so often before." "What of that?" I cried.
The widow answered it, and there was an old chap, dressed in a blue suit, and a stunning pretty girl in what these summer women make believe is a sea-going rig. And both of 'em was sopping wet through, and as miserable as two hens in a rain barrel.
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