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I don't know exactly how old I may be; but the other day I heard a fellow say, 'Stryker can't be more than five-and-forty; and I dare say be was right." "Well, allowing you are only five-and-forty, don't you mean to marry, one of these days?" "Certainly." "Don't you think it time to look about you?" "High time; but who will have me?" continued Mr. Stryker, with great complacency of manner.
Trembling like a whipped cur, Stryker meekly obeyed his instructions to the letter. The mechanician, with a contemptuous laugh leaving him, strode back to Calendar, meanwhile whipping off his goggles; and clapped a hearty hand upon the adventurer's quaking shoulders. "Well!" he cried.
Stryker was a man between forty and fifty, possessing some little property, a very good opinion of himself, and quite a reputation for cleverness and knowledge of the world.
Wyllys, "that if you cannot do everything, you must not suppose you can do nothing." "There is one point in American manners, that is very good," said Harry: "among our very best people we find a great deal of true simplicity; simplicity of the right sort; real, not factitious." "Sweet simplicity, oh, la!" exclaimed Mr. Stryker. "Well, I am a bad subject to deal with, myself.
I presume they're below ?" "Passengers!" A hush fell upon the group, during which Kirkwood sought Stryker's eye in pitiful pleading; and Stryker looked round him blankly. "Where's Miss Calendar?" the young man demanded sharply. "I must see her at once!" The keen and deep-set eyes of the skipper clouded as they returned to Kirkwood's perturbed countenance.
Smith, the conchologist, hoped to pick up some precious univalve or bivalve; Charlie talked of taking a sketch of Cape Cod; Harry declared he was determined to enjoy the trip, as the last holiday he could allow himself for a long time; and Mr. Stryker promised himself the best of chowders, a sea-dish in which he professed himself to be a great connoisseur. Mrs.
We have been wronged sometimes, and omitted to demand justice as firmly as we might have done; but there is, probably, no other government among the great powers of Christendom, that has been so free from OFFENSIVE guilt, during the last sixty years, as that of this country." It was evident that Mr. Stryker was not in the least convinced by Harry's defence of honest diplomacy.
"Well, of course I am very much obliged to you for the trouble you have had with it; but I shall defer thanking you formally, until I find out whether it is becoming or not." "Do you expect to make a very captivating Spaniard?" asked Mr. Stryker. "I shall do my best, certainly; but I shall leave you to decide how far I succeed, Mr. Stryker. Are the Brazilian women pretty, Mr.
It made no matter, one way or the other; he had lost Mrs. Hallam; but Calendar and Mulready he could put his finger on; they had undoubtedly gone off to the Alethea to confer again with Stryker, that was, unless they proposed sailing on the brigantine, possibly at turn of tide that night. Panic gripped his soul and shook it, as a terrier shakes a rat, when he conceived this frightful proposition.
De Vaux looked into the chowder pot, where all seemed to be going on well. He then joined Harry, and the young men continued walking together near the shanty, where preparations for dinner were going on under the charge of Stebbins and the acting steward of the cruise. "It is nearly time Stryker made his appearance with the fish," said Harry.
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