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She had been left by my grandfather with little or nothing to depend upon, when her brother introduced to her my father, then first mate of the ship to which he belonged. Her greatest friend was Grace Bingley, who lived with her mother, wife of a ship-master, a few doors off from us.
Budd, as my captain's lady, you see, Mr. Mulford, and intend to treat her accordin'ly. She knows it and Rose knows it and they both declare they'd rather sail with me, since sail they must, than with any other ship-master out of America." "You sailed once with Capt. Budd yourself, I think I have heard you say, sir?" "The old fellow brought me up.
A slow regular step in the gangway interrupted his paternal reflections. Hastily buttoning across his chest the pea-jacket which he usually wore at home as a single concession to his nautical surroundings, he drew himself up with something of the assumption of a ship-master, despite certain bucolic suggestions of his boots and legs.
I have now a vast treasure of his conversation, at different times, since the year 1762 , when I first obtained his acquaintance; and, by assiduous inquiry, I can make up for not knowing him sooner . A Newcastle ship-master, who happened to be in the house, intruded himself upon us. He was much in liquor, and talked nonsense about his being a man for Wilkes and Liberty, and against the ministry.
Therefore the sailor will never say, "cast anchor," and the ship-master aft will hail his chief mate on the forecastle in impressionistic phrase: "How does the cable grow?" Because "grow" is the right word for the long drift of a cable emerging aslant under the strain, taut as a bow-string above the water.
The sound of prayer and psalm-singing died away on the shore, and the little band, rising from their knees, saluted each other in that genial humor which always possesses a ship's company when they have weathered the ocean and come to land together. "Well, Master Jones, here we' are," said Elder Brewster cheerily to the ship-master.
I said my father had been a serjeant of marines, and was killed in the action that I had run away when the ships got in, and that I wished to be bound to some American ship-master, in order to become a regularly-trained seaman. This story so far imposed on Capt. Johnston as to induce him to listen to my proposals, and in part to accept them.
"But he speaks English, they say," said Jean Thompson. "He has, no doubt, learned it since he left us," said the priest. "But this ship-master, too, says his men called him Lafitte." "Lafitte? No. Do you not see? It is your brother-in-law, Jean Thompson! It is your wife's brother! Lemaitre! Capitaine Ursin Lemaitre!"
Fine family, beauty, and gold were powerful incentives to effort to an ambitious young man like Alfonso, and he was resolved, incognito, to explore the Great West in search of riches, and once found, he would lay all at Christine's feet, and again claim her hand. Jans Jansen, the Norwegian captain, was a jolly good ship-master, and the fair weather voyage across the Atlantic proved enjoyable.
They had apparently, therefore, little to hope for in the near future; certainly not enough to warrant expenditure and the risk of disgraceful exposure, in negotiations with a stranger an obscure ship-master to change his course and land his passengers in violation of the terms of his charter-party; negotiations, moreover, in which neither of the parties could well have had any guaranty of the other's good faith.
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