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"The look she gave me when I said these words, and especially the flash of her eye when I spoke of my being a sea-soldier, made me feel strong enough to tear that sea-monster's arm in twain, and to sail away with the lovely creature for whom my heart was beginning to throb." "It's a pity," said the blacksmith, "that you hadn't jumped into the water while the fit was on you, and done the tearing."
'My dear lady, said I, and I hope she did not take offence at the warmth of my expression, 'I don't see how anything can happen; but I promise you, on the word of a sea-soldier, that if danger should come upon us, I will save not only your father, but yourself and your maid. Trust me for that.
The captain must be a seaman, a sea-soldier, a sea-lawyer, and a sea-merchant, shut off from his principals by space which no electric current then annihilated.
When the danger was all over, when she had other people to depend upon besides me, and we were on board a fine steamer, with a lot of handsomely dressed naval officers, and going comfortably to Madras, of course she thought no more of the humble sea-soldier who once stood between her and nobody knew what.
One of the ship's pistols, fashioned like a musket, and strapped to his shoulder, was tied to his left hand, which again had been sewed by the sail-maker to the waistband of his beautifully pipe-clayed trousers; in short, he was rigged up as a complete sea-soldier in full uniform.
Harberry suggested that he was what the village of Riprock believed him to be. "I should not have taken you for a sailor," said the blacksmith. "I am not a sailor," said the other; "I am a soldier; a sea-soldier in fact, a marine."
He was at best a sea-soldier, a marine, not brought up from the start in the merchant-service and then polished into the complete blue-jacket and able seaman of the navy.
"Has she a built-on stern?" demanded Somers, half a minute later. "By Jove, I half believe she has. Eph, without that stern and the yawl mast, would you say the craft looks like the 'Juanita'?" "I believe she would," muttered young Somers, excitedly. "Marine orderly!" A sea-soldier came quickly up the bridge stairs, saluting. "Mr. Somers's compliments to Mr.
Then 'e says as 'ow I've been cheatin', so I says to 'im, polite like, as 'ow I 'adn't done no such thing, an' wi' that 'e ups an' 'its me in the eye, sir, which isn't fair." "He hit you in the eye?" asked Number One. "Yes, sir," said the sea-soldier, exhibiting a rapidly swelling cheek. "What have you to say?" the First Lieutenant asked the alleged assailant. "What he says isn't true, sir.
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