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Truefitt and Doull meantime had each singled out a French seaman, and with hearty good-will were attacking them with their cutlasses. So fierce was their onslaught that they drove them back into the midst of the melee, where Colonel Armytage's troopers were still holding their own against their foes. The French were, however, pressing them very hard.
Truefitt; "it'll come back in time, I dare say." "I'm sure he's affectionate," said Prudence. Mr. Catesby eyed his tormentors in silence; the faces of Prudence and her mother betokened much innocent enjoyment, but the austerity of Mrs. Porter's visage was unrelaxed. "Better let bygones be bygones," said Mrs. Truefitt; "he'll be sorry by-and-by for all the trouble he has caused."
I saw you standing in the window, and I could see at once that you were beautiful, and good, and kind." "I never heard of such impudence," continued Miss Truefitt. "I surprised myself," admitted Mr. Catesby. "In the usual way I am very quiet and well-behaved, not to say shy." Miss Truefitt looked at him scornfully. "I think that you had better stop your nonsense and go," she remarked.
Ronald longed to try and turn the tables, and to take her, but a glance at the passengers made him feel that his duty was in this case to do his utmost to escape. A bright look-out was kept for the frigate. "If the mounseers catches sight of she, they'll be inclined to put the helm down pretty sharp, and go about on t'other tack," observed Job Truefitt.
"If they don't succeed, I don't know who will. I never saw a finer swimmer than that man Truefitt." "Oh, I hope they will! I hope they will be saved!" cried Glover, in an agony of terror for Morton, who had inspired him with the sincerest affection. "There they go! bravely they swim!" cried Mr Calder. "They are ahead of the cask they dart forward the undertow has got them.
Bob seized the horse's head; the animal reared. Gerardin, in attempting to seize the rein, loosened his hold of Edda, and she would have fallen to the ground had not Truefitt caught her. The enemy were gathering thickly around. Bob, seeing what had happened, let go the rein to defend his own head, as well as his shipmate's, from the blows showered on them. Morton, too, was attacked on all sides.
The door was opened by an elderly woman, thin, and somewhat querulous in expression. Mr. Catesby had just time to notice this, and then he flung his arm round her waist, and hailing her as "Mother!" saluted her warmly. The faint scream of the astounded Mrs. Truefitt brought her daughter hastily into the passage. Mr. Catesby's idea was ever to do a thing thoroughly, and, relinquishing Mrs.
But have a bon-bon; I don't mean to be cross." She whirled across the room, snatched hold of one of her boxes of bon-bons, and presented it to Maria. Maria was not averse to a chocolate peppermint, and popped one into her mouth. The next instant Miss Truefitt appeared. "Now, Stephanotie," she said, "do you think for a single moment Oh, my dear child, you really are too awful!
Catesby attempted to shake her off, but in vain, and he ground his teeth as he realised the absurdity of his position. A man he could have dealt with, but Mrs. Porter was invulnerable. Sooner than walk down the road with her he preferred the sallies of the parlour. He walked back to his old position by the fireplace, and stood gazing moodily at the floor. Mrs. Truefitt tired of the sport at last.
"You haven't been tried as I have." "But Rawson, suppose we are preserved. What will you Bay then?" "That we have obtained more than we deserve," answered the old mate, as if involuntarily. "The frigate sees us," shouted Job Truefitt, from forward, making use of a very common nautical figure of speech. "There's port the helm square away the yards she'll be down to us in a jiffy."
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