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"I like you and the first officer, and as I have no friends at home who care for me, I am in no hurry to get back to old England." "Why were you unwilling to enter before?" I inquired. "Well, sir, I don't mind telling you now. It was on account of those two fellows, Howlett and Trinder.
I should have liked to get off and lead, but they did not give me time, and we suddenly found ourselves joined to Robert Trinder and his company of infantry, all going hard for the oak wood that I mentioned before. It was pretty to see the yellow horse jump. Nothing came amiss to him, and he didn't seem able to make a mistake.
He had promised Timothy Howlett and Bill Trinder to look them up, and they, having spent the last shilling in their pockets, were glad to ship on board, he hoping that they having been before in those seas might be useful.
Captain Bingley proposed sailing west for Banda, but when Captain Haiselden told him that we had on board a man belonging to the "Amphion," who stated that she had not been wrecked in the way described by Howlett and Trinder, but had been driven on the shore of a large island to the eastward, he exclaimed
Mercifully Annie Trinder had left the room. But there was Partridge by the sideboard, listening. "I'm not responsible for Ballinger's folly. If he finds himself inconvenienced by it, that's no concern of mine." "Well, Ballinger's folly has been very convenient for Mrs. Levitt." Mr. Waddington tried to look as if Mrs. Levitt's convenience were no concern of his either.
Did you think I was like Miss Trinder, bent upon marrying town and country houses, stables and diamonds? 'I did not think you were a fool, cried Lady Kirkbank, almost beside herself with vexation, for it had been borne in upon her, as the Methodists sometimes say, that if Mr.
It will be so nice when the Prince and all the best people are in Paris. We shall only stay in Cuba till the fuss about my running away is all over, and people have forgotten, don't you know. As for Mr. Smithson, why should I have any more compunction about jilting him than he had about that poor Miss Trinder? By-the-bye, I want you to send him back all his presents for me.
She had injured three hounds, upset two old women and a donkey-cart, broken a gate, and finally, on arriving at the place of her birth, had, according to the farmer, "fired the divil's pelt of a kick into her own mother's stomach". Moreover, she "hadn't as much sound skin on her as would bait a rat-trap" I here quote Mr. Trinder and she had fever in all her feet. Of course I bought her.
I gave the filly to one of the audience, and took Bridgie's place at the "tink-an". Miss Trinder and I put our backs into it, and suddenly I found myself flat on mine, with the "tink-an" grasped in both hands above my head. A composite whoop of triumph rose from the spectators, and the filly rose with it.
He depreciated all her female friends abused their gowns and bonnets, and gave her to understand, between the lines, as it were, that she was the only woman in London worth thinking about. She looked at him curiously, wondering how Belle Trinder had been able to resign herself to the idea of marrying him. He was not absolutely bad looking but he was in all things unlike a girl's ideal lover.
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