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I say, you Tregellin fellows, wake up!" it was the voice we had heard before "wake up and let us in?" it sounded as if he turned to his companions then, and laughed and muttered something "here's some decent sailor-boys as wants a drop and a bite, so wake up quick, boys and niggers! let us in, I say, or we'll break open the doors, and break your bones into the bargain."
As soon as the boats were hoisted up, and the cutter was once more under way, standing from harbour, Mr Mophead took the musket in his hand, and, approaching Walter, said, with great form, "Mr Walter Tregellin, with Captain Treenail's leave and I am sure that he will give me leave I beg to present to you this weapon, that you may hand it to your respected father.
"Dis ole man Clump was 'is body-sarvant: but Clump was not ole den, and he follow his massa to de war dat was long, long before dose young gemmen was born afore dey was tinked of and Massa Tregellin deir fader was young gemmen like dose, but more politer.
Clump pulled over in his punt to the village, across the bay. When Juno heard Clump's report, her distress was very great. As she groaned, and wiped her wet, shrivelled eyes with a duster, she said "Lor' o' Marsy! Clump, ef harm's cum ter dem chiles ob Massa Tregellin den den you berry me berry dis ole 'ooman deep." "Now, toff your mout, June toff your mout!
Indian combats between Red Indians in the Far West, the deeds of Sir Kenneth, Saladin, and Coeur de Lion in his favourite "Talisman," and the entire character of Drake's reading, had joined with and gathered romance from his late study of Virgil to misdirect an innate chivalry. Alfred Higginson's reply was also characteristic: "Drake Tregellin, "I have received your cartel.
I propose Saturday as the time, when those who might otherwise disturb our meeting are absent: and I propose the hold of the wreck as a suitable spot. Your sense of honour will, of course, keep this affair secret, and I ask a speedy reply. "Drake Tregellin." Only a warm, fierce, reckless-natured boy of fourteen could have hit upon such an absurdly quixotic way of deciding a quarrel.
"All which is submitted for the acceptance and concurrence of the gentlemen of the Tutor. "Robert Tregellin, Coxswain." Mr Clare, when he read it, smiled and said he would see about it, and then turned to Henry and asked him if he had learned those fifty lines yet. Captain Mugford was presented with his copy as he entered the house for dinner.
The burning wreck yet lighted the heavens, and the horrid scene at the very doorstep of our home of such a happy half-year. It is fifty years ago and some months since that rainy, bloody, flame-lit October night. And now this cold, wintery, blustering midnight, I the Bob Tregellin of my story sit writing this concluding chapter. There is a coal-fire glowing hot in the grate.
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