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Updated: May 7, 2025
"Of course I don't mind her being at Trotman's, but I do very much object to her being here," he said ungraciously. "I'll see about her being sent back to Epsom to-day," said Janet quietly. She turned to her son: "Now then, Timmy, I'm afraid we shall have to ask poor Godfrey to start back at once after tea." "Oh, I say," called out Jack awkwardly.
She had a kindly, shrewd face, and when Radmore said apologetically, "I'm sorry to disturb you, but the matter is really urgent, and we've brought a sick animal many miles in order that it may benefit by Mr. Trotman's skill," her face cleared, and she said cordially: "All right, sir, come right in."
Eighty men sufficed to drag the Great Eastern up to and over her moorings. Bringing the anchor out of the ground, however, was not so easily managed; and it was not till all the musical resources known to sailors on such occasions were nearly exhausted that the tenacious gripe of Trotman's patent was released, when a slow drift with the tide showed that the great ship was again set free.
As the captain's voice could not be heard half-way to the bow, even with the aid of the ancient speaking-trumpet, that instrument is supplanted by semaphore signals by day, and coloured lamps by night; the electric telegraph is also used in connection with the engine-rooms. There are ten anchors, four of them being Trotman's patent, weighing seven tons each.
Trotman's fault; he said Josephine ought to come home." But his mother went on a little wildly: "It isn't an easy job, taking over another woman's children and doing the very best you can for them! To-day, Timmy, you've made me feel as if I was sorry that I ever did it." "Sorry that you married Daddy?" asked Timmy in an awe-struck voice. Janet Tosswill nodded.
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