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This decided Mavis to act upon a resolve that, had been formulating in her mind while waiting for Mrs Trivett's return. "Give me half an hour," she said to the sullen Gunner. "I'll make it well worth your while." She then went upstairs to kiss her baby before setting out. "Where are you going, ma'am?" asked tearful Mrs Trivett, who had followed her upstairs. "To Mr Devitt. He's kind at heart.
To round the ship to might have been hazardous; but the second mate, who was the best of the officers, at once shouted out for volunteers to lower the boat. "Hold hard," says the captain; "I'll not have the hands thrown away for a careless, useless lubber who can't hold fast." I had run aft when I heard some one say that the man who had gone was Tom Trivett.
I say, the girls we knew must have been much better than they pretended they were; for I'll swear it isn't the fathers. 'But why on earth did you do it? The Infant was shouting. 'You know what it means nowadays. 'Well, sir, said Bobby Trivett, the taller of the two, 'Wontner talks too much, for one thing.
Tom Trivett entered the navy, and having lost a leg, became an out-pensioner of Greenwich Hospital. He used frequently to come and see me in after years, and nothing pleased him so much as to talk over the adventures of our early days, and to spin long yarns to my children about those he subsequently went through.
Tom Trivett had not come aft, having refused to take any part in the affair, whereby he gained still greater ill-will than before from his shipmates. The discontent which had thus shown itself, though kept down for a time, was by no means quelled. We had to eat the food, bad as it was, though perhaps not altogether as bad as the samples exhibited to the captain.
They're all very much alike for that matter, except Tom Trivett, and he's as good a fellow as ever lived. He has a hard life of it, for the men are always playing him tricks; and the officers spite him, and are constantly making him do dirty jobs which no able seaman should be called on to perform. But, I say, I mustn't stand talking here any longer, or I shall be suspected of being your friend.
Tom Trivett all the time, having given up his berth to me, slept in a far more uncomfortable bunk right forward, but never uttered a word of complaint, or tried to induce me to turn out. His was true Samaritan charity, and I was grateful to him. He even, I knew, tried to influence the rest of the crew for good, but did not succeed. They let him alone, which was all he could expect of them.
Thomas Bird, a very intelligent half-breed, who has translated a part of the Bible into the Blackfoot language for the Rev. S. Trivett, a Church of England missionary. These gentlemen conclude that the word means "all-face man."
"Let the fellow drown," he exclaimed; "it's his own fault, and it'll be a lesson to the rest of you." Though the men had no love for Tom Trivett, bad as they were these remarks greatly enraged them. "He cares no more for our lives than he does for that of a dog. It would have been just the same if any of us had gone," exclaimed several of them.
Petrofsky has been dealing with me, They'd smell a rat at once, and run away, taking him with them, and we'd have all our work to do over again." "That's right," agreed Detective Trivett, who was one of the four in the airship that was now hovering over the Atlantic coast, about ten miles below the summer resorts of which Asbury Park was one.
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