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Strange to say, although I had been at home six days, I had hitherto been so busy, running about with Dora and calling upon a rather numerous circle of friends that, up to the time of receiving Mr White's offer, I had not found time to do more than just become aware of the fact that Mr Joe Martin, our local ship-builder, happened to have a very fine craft upon the stocks, well advanced toward completion.
"Of course; and if you didn't like me, and I warn't up to my work, why, you could get rid of me. But that's a very different thing to buying a ship." "Yes," said Uncle Paul, "but what about the ship-builder? Is he an honest man?" "Oh yes, I think so." "Couldn't he give good references?" "Well, yes. Old established; built a lot of craft. Dessay he'd find a few to say a word for him."
"Do you think one's to be had over there?" "Sure on it. See one last week as they was just getting up her standing rigging." "What, a new one?" cried Rodd. "Ay. Fresh launched, and being made ready for sea." "Capital!" cried Uncle Pad. "Who does she belong to?" "Ship-builder as yet." "And what would be her price?" "Dunno. All depends," grunted the captain.
"Doris shall never cross this threshold," repeated Keraunus, for all his answer. "Then tell the tailor Hippias to send me an assistant; but that will cost money." "We have it, and can pay," replied Keraunus, proudly, and in order not to forget his commissions he muttered to himself while he went to get a litter: "Hippias the tailor, blue ribbon, red ribbon, and Tryphon the ship-builder."
Yes, sir, the son of the ship-builder Thunichtgut has shown to you and your fellow-members of the ancient aristocracy that talents and ability are no exclusive privileges of your class, and that a common ship-builder's son may become prime minister, and that a low-born Thunichtgut may be transformed into a Baron von Thugut.
"Those are empty words, Cora; words that are quite empty. In one sense a man should always be enough for himself. He should have enough of principle and enough of conscience to restrain him from doing what he knows to be wrong. But can a ship-builder build his ship single-handed, or the watchmaker make his watch without assistance?
"I do not have to think," I replied, "when I know the nobleness we have risen to at times." "And I," he pursued, "happen to believe it is not all only stars and space; and that God, as much as any ship-builder, rejoices to watch every tiniest boat meet and brave the storm."
There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us, kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron shoe, the roots of all things are in man. Santa Croce and the Dome of St. Peter's are lame copies after a divine model. Strasburg Cathedral is a material counterpart of the soul of Erwin of Steinbach. The true poem is the poet's mind; the true ship is the ship-builder.
But we have the express testimony of Thucydides, that even at a much earlier period, nearly 300 years before the Peloponnesian war, the Samians gave great encouragement to shipbuilding, and employed Aminodes, the Corinthian, who was esteemed the most skilful ship-builder of his time; and Herodotus speaks of them as trading to Egypt, Spain, &c., before any of the other Greeks, except Sostrates, of Egina, were acquainted with those countries.
The most interesting of the ornaments in the room were portraits of Li-Hung-Chang himself, Krupp the gun-maker, Armstrong the ship-builder, and the immortal “Chinese Gordon,” the only foreigner, it is said, who has ever won a spark of admiration from the Chinese people. While we were waiting for the viceroy, his second son, the pupil of Mr.
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