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He had heard some one approaching, but had supposed it to be a stranger. "I am not much of a sailor; but I should say it would clear up, with a brisk wind from the west or the northwest by afternoon." "Aye!" said Captain Tolley, for it was he; "and a stiff nor'wester by night. If it isn't I'll give my head for a foot-ball.
"I thought that Simmons would bring him," said Captain Tolley to the second mate; "such a smooth tongue as he has. It is a pity he wasn't a minister himself his genius is half wasted here." "Glad to see you on board the Storm King, Master Mather," was the greeting of the Captain, as the minister was helped up to the deck by the mates. "The Storm King!
Halliday, who had been supporting the weight of his body upon his right leg, transferred the burden to his left. "But now I'm thirty-five; and I couldn't love you if I tried." She shook her curls at him. "It isn't your fault. It is that I have changed. Suppose I'd married you?" "Bit of bad luck for both of us," suggested Mr. Halliday. "A tragedy," Miss Tolley corrected him.
"And in fact, my sister escorted the benefit of clergy to them about two months ago," said Alan, "and the ladies of the Company House are very haughty about it." "They won't be long," predicted Miss Chisholm, confidently. "The idea! I can forgive Mrs. Hopps, because she's only a kid herself; but Mrs. Tolley ought to have been big enough! However!"
Captain Tolley laughed heartily. "Oh well, good wine never goes begging. The anchor is not up yet, and we will put you off just where you came on. Come along!" Without a word of leave-taking to the two whom he had joined together, Master Mather followed the Captain.
Tolley loved every inch of Kirkwood; for her it was the captured dream. Min Tolley, sitting next to her mother, loved Kirkwood, too, because she was going to marry Harry Garvey, who was one of the shift bosses at the plant. Harry sat next to Min. Then came her brother Roosy, ten years old; and then the Hopps Mrs.
The current had accelerated, the wind had slackened, and the Pyrenees had sagged off to the west. The lookout sighted Barclay de Tolley to the eastward, barely visible from the masthead, and vainly and for hours the PYRENEES tried to beat up to it. Ever, like a mirage, the cocoanut trees hovered on the horizon, visible only from the masthead.
I fear there may be spies upon my movements." Captain Tolley assenting to these arrangements, Master Raymond and he again shook hands, and the latter was put ashore in one of the Storm King's boats.
Tolley singing 'What Are the Wild Waves Saying? Then, if Alan sends you to Sacramento, you can go to the theatre every night you're there, and pretend" her eyes danced mischievously "that you're going to step out on Broadway when the curtain goes down, and can look up the street at electric signs of cocoa and ginger beer and silk petticoats "
It was no disparagement to his manhood. Even Master Raymond's face grew very serious for did even he know that this Captain Tolley might not be the renowned freebooter, of whose many acts of daring and violence the wide seas rang? "I would counsel you for your own good to do at once what you will have to do ultimately," said Master Raymond gravely.
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