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Updated: May 16, 2025
And, indeed, "that woman" and Honorius set us up in comprehension of matters progressing. I shall pass over the next scenes, and come to that in which all the creditors of all the lords are brought on to the stage in a state which calls for the interference of the Doge: they are all drunk, except Shylock. This scene really is a startler.
A little bustle on deck, the rattling of chains, the splash of an anchor, and Her Majesty's ship "Startler" well manned, and armed with guns that could send shot and shell crashing through the town on the river's right bank swinging to her moorings; for she had reached her destination the campong, or village, of Sultan Hamet, the native Malay potentate, who was under British protection, and who sought our aid to rule his land beneficially, after our manners and customs, and who now professed the most ardent friendship for those who were ready to do their duty; though the trust they felt in the Malays was not untempered by suspicion in some cases, perhaps, with fear.
This was a startler even to Cucullin; but he got up, however, and after pulling the middle finger of his right hand until it cracked three times, he went outside, and getting his arms about the house, turned it as she had wished. When Fin saw this, he felt the sweat of fear oozing out through every pore of his skin; but Oonagh, depending upon her woman's wit, felt not a whit daunted.
"Blowed punch head," sneered Tom Long; "that's gentlemanly, certainly." "Look here," said Bob, who was stung to the quick by the truth of this remark; "do you want to fight, Mr Tom Long?" "Mr T. Long presents his compliments to the middy boy of the `Startler, and begs to inform him that when her Majesty's officers fight, it is with some one worthy of their steel." "Ha, ha! Haw, haw!
The rapid rate at which the two prahus went away from the island after the attacking party had scrambled in, was sufficient to show those on board the "Startler" how impossible it would be to overtake them by means of boats. The only way would be to surprise their crews, or to sink them with the guns of the steamer next time they tried to pass down the river.
But the doctor did manage it somehow in the following days, when, in spite of the heat, every one worked with a will; the resident's house was improved, and boats were constantly going to and from the "Startler," whose hold was something like a conjuring trick, as it constantly turned out household necessaries and furniture.
They parted; and it was quite true, for after looking rather shame-facedly the one at the other, the ensign bore off his arums to the mess-room, and the lotuses were sent on board the "Startler" by the very next boat.
Spargo dropped his pen on the desk before him with a sharp clatter that made Mrs. Gutch jump. A steady devotion to the bottle had made her nerves to be none of the strongest, and she looked at the startler of them with angry malevolence. "Don't do that again, young man!" she exclaimed sharply. "I can't a-bear to be jumped out of my skin, and it's bad manners.
Say, Dick, that's an ugly-looking guy, that idol, eh. Won't these ginks get a startler when they hear him speak presently!" "Speak?" repeated Dick. "How do you mean?" "You just wait and see, sonny," returned Earle. "Oh, yes, he'll speak, you bet. And what he is going to say is But here comes the chief and his principal headmen to meet us.
Steam had been got up before dark, and every preparation made, for this time the "Startler" was to go up stream: and at last, when night rapidly succeeded day, as it does in the tropics, the steamer lay waiting for the rising of the moon, and then her screw slowly revolved, and she began to feel her way gently against the swift stream the people of the campong only seeing her at nightfall moored as usual, and not awaking to the fact that she had gone until the morning, of course far too late to give any warning to the rajah if they were so disposed.
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