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Lund had rigged a gangway and stood at the head of it, saluting the lieutenant as the latter snappily answered the greeting. Rainey found the girl and put a hurried question. "What about Tamada? Where is he? What's the plan?" She turned to him with eyes that danced with excitement. "He's in the galley, Doctor Carlsen. But he isn't Tamada any more.
"Supposing," I said, "that a clergyman, an ordinary clergyman, not a bishop, the kind of clergyman whom you would perhaps describe as a minister, were to preach a sermon about the British Empire and were to say " "In our church," said Mrs. Dodds snappily, "the ministers preach the Gospel."
When she rejoined her father her face was flushed. "Oh, father," she said quite snappily, "isn't that just like me?" "Yes, very like," he agreed, and he smiled. "Where is your umbrella?" Prudence stopped abruptly. "I don't know," she said, with a stony face. "I can't remember a blessed thing about the old umbrella. Oh, I guess I didn't bring it, at all." She breathed long in her relief.
"Are we fit, sir?" asked I, in suspense. "I've written my verdict," he said snappily, looking at me as much as to say: "You aren't asked to converse. This isn't a conversazione"; but, when he caught my gaze, he seemed, to repent of his harshness, and answered gruffly: "Both perfect." "Oh, thanks, sir," said I. I could have kissed the old churl.
Well, gents, I move that at the first available spot we go ashore, feed our faces, look at the ladies, and perform our morning salute to Umanuh said salute consisting of applying the right thumb to the end of the nose and snappily twiddling four fingers." "Motion carried." McKay's set face relaxed. Then, his glance dropping to the Raposa, it tightened again. "Oh, hullo, Rand! How you feeling?"
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