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We find instructions concerning Mungo Park issued even to cruizers collecting political and other information upon the East African coast; e.g., to Captain Smee, sent in 1811 by the Bombay Government. About ten years after Mungo Park's death, two expeditions were fitted out by Government to follow up his discovery.
He had said horrid things to them and hit them with the palm of his hand, because he could not hit with his fist, but they had only clung to him the more. 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?
'Captain, is all well? they asked timidly, but he answered with a hollow moan. 'He sighs, said Smee. 'He sighs again, said Starkey. 'And yet a third time he sighs, said Smee. 'What's up, captain? Then at last he spoke passionately. 'The game's up, he cried, 'those boys have found a mother. Affrighted though she was, Wendy swelled with pride. 'O evil day, cried Starkey.
She was peering out at her royal spouse and his fellow tipplers, and the frown on her face gave Grief his cue. Whatever was to be accomplished must be through her. In another shady corner of the big compound Cornelius was holding court. He had been at it early, for when Grief arrived the case of Willie Smee was being settled.
Smee had pleasant names for everything, and his cutlass was Johnny Corkscrew, because he wiggled it in the wound. One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon. "Johnny's a silent fellow," he reminded Hook. "Not now, Smee," Hook said darkly. "He is only one, and I want to mischief all the seven.
"'Indeed it was lucky for some of us you devoted yourself to high art, Gandish, Mr. Smee says, and sips the wine and puts it down again, making a face. It was not first-rate tipple, you see. "'Two girls, continues that indomitable Mr. Gandish. 'Hidea for 'Babes in the Wood. 'View of Paestum, taken on the spot by myself, when travelling with the late lamented Earl of Kew.
Such a rich complexion, such fine turns in his hair! such eyes! to see real blue eyes was so rare nowadays! And the Colonel too, if the Colonel would but give him a few sittings, the grey uniform of the Bengal Cavalry, the silver lace, the little bit of red ribbon just to warm up the picture! it was seldom, Mr. Smee declared, that an artist could get such an opportunity for colour.
It was that well-known portrait painter, Andrew Smee, Esq., R.A., who recommended Gandish to Colonel Newcome one day when the two gentleman met at dinner at Lady Ann Newcome's. Mr. Smee happened to examine some of Clive's drawings, which the young fellow had executed for his cousins.
'What my mother hopes. John, what are But Hook had found his voice again. 'Tie her up, he shouted. It was Smee who tied her to the mast. 'See here, honey, he whispered, 'I'll save you if you promise to be my mother. But not even for Smee would she make such a promise. 'I would almost rather have no children at all, she said disdainfully.
Speaking of Smee reminds me of portraits. I miss "Portrait of a Lady," "Portrait of a Gentleman;" the names of the sitters are now always given a concession to the notoriety-hunting proclivities of the present period. Goodall . On the other hand, young Mr. Richmond goes back to the antiquated manner of Reynolds in one of his representations.
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