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Updated: May 12, 2025
I held the tiller between my knees as I stood up and gazed in the required direction, but could see nothing for a few minutes in the dusk. "Can't you see?" "Yes, sir, now. Small round black cloud." "Yes, of smoke." "Ay, ay, sir, I see it," said one of the sailors. "Hooray! it's the Teaser with the wind blowing hard astern and carrying the smoke of her funnel right over her and ahead."
To my shamed surprise, this roustabout wit drew a nervous, silvery giggle from her; and that completed the work with Mr. Percy, whose face grew scarlet with anger. "You're a hot one, you are!" he sneered, with shocking bitterness. "You're quite the teaser, ain't ye, s'long's yer lady-friend is lukkin' on! I guess they'll be a few surprises comin' YOUR way, before long.
"You informed me a little while ago that Captain Folkner was on board of the Teaser; and I wish to ask if you are uniformly in the habit of speaking the truth?" continued Lonley. "Well, that depends upon circumstances. If I have not done so, you cannot expect me to contradict myself." "You claimed that you were Captain Gilder."
Then, amid the strange confusion produced by the roar of the wind and thunder of the waves whose spray hissed over our heads, I lay wondering what had become of Mr Brooke and the others whether they had reached the land, and were screened behind the rocks as we were; then about the Teaser whether she had been able to make the shelter of the river before the typhoon came down upon them in all its fury.
Captain Breaker sent you to ascertain, if you could, where the Teaser was, and you reported by bringing her out, which certainly no one expected you would do, and I believe this part of the programme carried out on that excursion was not mentioned in your orders."
"Then I suppose the shots we hear are directed at the boat," added Beeks. "They can hardly be directed at anything out in that fog and darkness; but I don't think the guard will be willing to take the risk of a chance shell bursting near them," added Christy. "On board the Teaser!" shouted a voice quite near the bow of the steamer. "In the boat!" replied Christy.
'I am content to keep mine; and mine is that you are a very unpleasant, odious, disagreeable person. Here she laughed heartily, and seemed to enjoy herself very much. 'Oh, you're a sharp gal! said Mr Jonas. 'She's a regular teaser, an't she, cousin?
It was an insult, and it nerved me to a great effort. I discarded for it was my serve the Hampstead Smash; I discarded the Peruvian Teaser. Instead, I served two Piccadilly Benders from the right-hand court and two Westminster Welts from the left-hand. The Piccadilly Bender is my own invention. It can only be served from the one court, and it must have a wind against it.
"The other Sunday he had been skylarking in Sunday School, it was evident, for when she asked him to tell her the text, he shot this one at her: 'Don't worry. You'll get the blanket." "What?" gasped Laura. "That's a teaser," said Lance. "What did the kid mean?" "That's what troubled Alice," chuckled Bobby. "She couldn't get it at all; but Tommy stuck to it that he had given her the text straight.
The leadsman on the port side reported two fathoms a little later, and then there was a ring to back her, for there could not be more than two foot of water under the keel. At this moment the peal of a twelve-pounder came from the shore, and a little later the bursting of a shell was heard astern of the Teaser.
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