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The Hawk was lost on her first voyage, and Bailie Meldrum some time chief magistrate of Anstruther-Wester one of the crew, lost the toes of both his feet by frost-bite. The undertaking did not prove a successful one; the company was dissolved; and the premises, which were sold to the late John Miller, senior, shipowner in Anstruther, afterwards became, as I said, the property of Mr Todd.
"Right bang in the middle of the Walpole Reefs, and if it's true enough that you can get no holding-ground anywhere in less than forty fathom, then what of that? There are the hurricanes, too. But it's a first-rate thing. As good as a gold-mine better! Yet there's not a fool of them that will see it. I can't get a skipper or a shipowner to go near the place.
As he had now arrived at the door of his own house, which adjoined the Palais de Justice, he entered, after having, coldly saluted the shipowner, who stood, as if petrified, on the spot where Villefort had left him. The ante-chamber was full of police agents and gendarmes, in the midst of whom, carefully watched, but calm and smiling, stood the prisoner.
Owing to this change, the worthy shipowner became at that moment we will not say all powerful, because Morrel was a prudent and rather a timid man, so much so, that many of the most zealous partisans of Bonaparte accused him of "moderation" but sufficiently influential to make a demand in favor of Dantes.
You can't make a lawyer or a shipowner or an ironmaster into a peer of several hundred years' descent." "No, you can't," said Alice; "but Mr. Eildon is not a peer, you know." "No, but he is the grandson of one duke and the nephew of another; and if he could work for it he might have a peerage of his own, or if he had great wealth he would probably get one.
Of all the slave-dealers on this coast, the Arabs are the most unscrupulous. In 1855, one Mohammed of Muscat, a shipowner, who, moreover, constantly visits Aden, bought within sight of our flag a free-born Arab girl of the Yafai tribe, from the Akarib of Bir Hamid, and sold her at Berberah to a compatriot.
I met him last in Hong Kong." "Then you know him?" "Quite well, if he is the man I imagine." "That is really very nice of Ventnor," thought the shipowner. "The last thing I should credit him with would be a forgiving disposition." Meanwhile Anstruther was reading Iris a little lecture. "Sweet one," he explained to her, "do not allude to me by my former rank. I am not entitled to it.
It was also a subject of real grief to Mrs. Weldon, the actual situation of her former companions in misery. Mr. Weldon, Dick Sand, and Hercules moved heaven and earth to find traces of them. Finally they succeeded thanks to the correspondents which the rich shipowner had in different parts of the world.
Yes, you look at me, but you must remember that he carries his drink differently to every one else he is quite by himself in everything!" She said this with a certain air of pride. "And he has punished the shipowner and even the judge daren't touch him. The good God Himself can't be more upright than he is." Now the dark evenings had come when the lamp had to be lit early for the workers.
Rising from a little cabin boy in short clothes of the drabbest drab, to a harpooneer in a broad shad-bellied waistcoat; from that becoming boat-header, chief mate, and captain, and finally a shipowner; Bildad, as I hinted before, had concluded his adventurous career by wholly retiring from active life at the goodly age of sixty, and dedicating his remaining days to the quiet receiving of his well-earned income.
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