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Twice Smee beat upon the instrument, and then stopped to listen gleefully. "The tom-tom," the miscreants heard Peter cry; "an Indian victory!" The doomed children answered with a cheer that was music to the black hearts above, and almost immediately they repeated their good-byes to Peter.
There was little sound, and none agreeable save the whir of the ship's sewing machine at which Smee sat, ever industrious and obliging, the essence of the commonplace, pathetic Smee.
Fifteen paid the penalty for their crimes that night; but two reached the shore: Starkey to be captured by the redskins, who made him nurse for all their papooses, a melancholy come-down for a pirate; and Smee, who henceforth wandered about the world in his spectacles, making a precarious living by saying he was the only man that Jas. Hook had feared.
Michael had tried on his spectacles. To tell poor Smee that they thought him lovable! Hook itched to do it, but it seemed too brutal. Instead, he revolved this mystery in his mind: why do they find Smee lovable? He pursued the problem like the sleuth-hound that he was. If Smee was lovable, what was it that made him so? A terrible answer suddenly presented itself: 'Good form?
"Who would ever have thought of seeing your lordship here?" "Why the deuce not, Mr. Smee?" asks Lord Kew, abruptly. "Is it wrong to come here? I have been in the house only five minutes, and three people have said the same thing to me Mrs. Newcome, who is sitting downstairs in a rage waiting for her carriage, the condescending Barnes, and yourself. Why do you come here, Since? How are you, Mr.
Gandish said if Clive would come for three or four years into his academy he could make something of him. Mr. Smee shook his head, and said he was afraid, that kind of loose, desultory study, that keeping of aristocratic company, was anything but favourable to a young artist Smee, who would walk five miles to attend an evening party of ever so little a great man!
"And yet," said Smee, "I have often heard you say that hook was worth a score of hands, for combing the hair and other homely uses." "Ay," the captain answered, "if I was a mother I would pray to have my children born with this instead of that," and he cast a look of pride upon his iron hand and one of scorn upon the other. Then again he frowned.
'But I never could get my price for it; and here it hangs in my own room. Igh art won't do in this country, Colonel it's a melancholy fact. "'High art! I should think it is high art! whispers old Smee; 'fourteen feet high, at least!" And then out loud he says 'The picture has very fine points in it, Gandish, as you say. Foreshortening of that arm, capital!
Hook was completely puzzled. 'You ask him some questions, he said to the others, wiping his damp brow. Smee reflected. 'I can't think of a thing, he said regretfully. 'Can't guess, can't guess, crowed Peter. 'Do you give it up? Of course in his pride he was carrying the game too far, and the miscreants saw their chance. 'Yes, yes, they answered eagerly.
'Brimstone and gall, thundered Hook, 'what cozening is here? His face had gone black with rage, but he saw that they believed their words, and he was startled. 'Lads, he said, shaking a little, 'I gave no such order. 'It is passing queer, Smee said, and they all fidgeted uncomfortably. Hook raised his voice, but there was a quiver in it.
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