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Updated: June 11, 2025
What more natural than that the high-spirited, irresponsible Dick should fall into this trap? or indeed that he should have been picked out in advance as the ideal victim and have been drawn into it? "Hello, there!" grumbled Dick, entering. "Why didn't you answer a shipmate's hail?" "I heard you; but just then I was adding a column of figures, and I knew you'd look in."
On the present occasion, he was ready to say whatever he thought would most conform to his shipmate's wishes, and luckily he construed the expression of the other's countenance aright.
We trust you, Sam. You loves the boy. I knows you do. You'll be faithful, lad?" "Yes, Paul; so help me, I will," answered Sam with much feeling, pressing his shipmate's hand held out to him. "Stay," said Paul suddenly, "you shall not go alone, Sam.
Bob seized the horse's head; the animal reared. Gerardin, in attempting to seize the rein, loosened his hold of Edda, and she would have fallen to the ground had not Truefitt caught her. The enemy were gathering thickly around. Bob, seeing what had happened, let go the rein to defend his own head, as well as his shipmate's, from the blows showered on them. Morton, too, was attacked on all sides.
"Ah, John, you were always the one for feeling a thing, and now the joy is too much for you. Considerate, too, it was of you, and really kind but that's you, John, all over to wear an old shipmate's cap in affectionate memory. No, John, don't deprive yourself of it." The wretched man felt with quivering fingers for the cap, took it off and laid it on the rock beside me, but never spoke.
This would be a settlement which would suit her in every way, but so long as that niece lived there, there would be no hope of it; even the shipmate's son would be in the way. But she supposed he would soon be off. Mrs. Easterfield writes a Letter.
"All right, my boy, all right," he observed in an absent way, turning to whisper to the two other gentlemen something, I think, about "old Charley," and "must be passed for my old shipmate's sake." "I quite believe what you say: I do not doubt your word for an instant; for Frank Vernon's son, I am sure, could not but always speak the truth. Did your father come down with you for your examination?"
There he stood, his huge beard blackened with smoke and dabbled with a shipmate's blood; his hair, which had escaped from under his handkerchief when he went aloft, streaming in the breeze; his brawny arm bared, and his drawn cutlass in his hand; and looking truly like one of the sea-kings of old, the rovers of the main, prepared for a desperate struggle with his enemies.
New-year's Day came, and preparations were made to celebrate the day with the usual festivities. But the recent death had affected the crew too deeply to allow them to indulge in the unrestrained hilarity of that season. Prayers were read in the morning, and both Captain Guy and Captain Ellice addressed the men feelingly in allusion to their late shipmate's death and their own present position.
"La Proserpine!" repeated Raoul, who was familiar with his shipmate's adventures, and did not require to be told his meaning; "if you are not mistaken, Etooell, le Feu-Follet needs put her lantern under a shade. This is only a forty, if I can count her ports." "I care nothing for ports or guns; it is the Proserpine; and the only harm I wish her is, that she were at the bottom of the ocean.
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