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Then, if thrifty, or if possessed of a shipyard at home, such as I have described, he soon became an owner. In time, perhaps, he would add one or two schooners to his fleet, and then stay ashore as owner and outfitter, sending out his boats on shares.
Meanwhile the work went steadily forward at the shipyard, and by the time that Bob was once more able to go on duty the framework of the schooner was complete, and the planking had been begun, whilst the battery was in so forward a state that another fortnight would see it ready to receive the guns.
In a very short time the boats had made the passage across the bay and were brought with an easy graceful sweep alongside the landing at the shipyard.
"Nobody that you or I know; some of the beach-combers and hide-by-nights, I think, started it. Pokeberry's girl told me; her brother works in the shipyard." Jane sat looking at Martha with staring eyes. "How dare they " "They dare do anything, and we can't answer back. That's what's goin' to make it hard. It's nobody's business, but that don't satisfy 'em.
Truth to tell, I forgot to ask it, for she is sorely spent; and so I made haste to come to you." Then Leva would know how a lady came at this time to Arngeir's house, for he was alone, save for his four men, being an orphan without other kin beside us, and his house was close to our shipyard and the sea. "She came not to me, but I found her," he replied.
"And," he continued, after a slight pause, "I reckon she's a foreigner; that high poop and them deep-curvin' headboards never took shape in a British shipyard, I'm prepared to swear to that. Looks to me like a Dutchman. What do you think, Mr Delamere?"
Here's to the learned, livin' skeleton from Boston! Five per cint. man and ninety-five per cint. crank!" The next morning the group of painters all except Joplin, who was doing a head in "smears" behind the Groote Kerk a mile away were at work in the old shipyard across the Maas at Papendrecht.
But I'd spoken before I caught sight of the tragic look in his eyes as he once more looked up at me. "If those politicians had only kept their word, we'd have had our shipyard deal to save us," he said, more to himself than to me. Yet that, I knew, was more an excuse than a reason. "And if the rabbit-dog hadn't stopped to scratch, he might have caught the hare!" I none too mercifully quoted.
"But you needn't feel bad, Elsie," said Captain Jerry soothingly. "'Tain't to be expected that you could paint vessels like Eben Lothrop can. Eben he used to work in a shipyard up to East Boston once, and when he was there he had to paint schooners and things, reely put the paint onto 'em I mean, so, of course, when it come to paintin' pictures of 'em, why " And Captain Jerry waved his hand.
Lance walked down to the landing-place with Captain Staunton and the others, and saw them embark in the boats detailed to convey the working party to the new shipyard. He then whispered a word or two of explanation to his friends and allowed the boats to go away without him.
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