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The lad don't want for stuff; but it's shore stuff, a'ter all; and that will never pass muster in blue water. I dare say, now, this Imperor-Gineral, Bonaparte, would make a bloody poor shipmaster, if a body was to try him." I made no answer, and we strolled on until dark. Then we returned to our lodgings, and turned-in.
Gracefully withdrawing the cigar from his mouth, and touching his breast with turned-in fingers, he accosted her with a comical operatic effort at her high notes 'Italia! She gathered her arms on her bosom and looked swiftly round: then at the apparition of her enemy. It is but an ironical form of respect that you offer to the prey you have been hotly chasing and have caught.
The anchor was scarcely let go when three or four boats dashed alongside, and "Well, Bill, old man, what luck?" was the general question. "Five-and-twenty, thank God, men, women, and children," responded old Bill. "Did ye catch sight of our rockets, boys!" "Ay, ay; never fear. And `mother' ashore there, she's never turned-in at all this blessed night.
Six weeks, or two months, of the hardest work we had yet seen, but not the most disagreeable or trying, was before us, and then ``Good by to California! We turned-in early, knowing that we might expect an early call; and sure enough, before the stars had quite faded, ``All hands ahoy! and we were turned-to, heaving out ballast.
Nathaniel Pipkin was a harmless, inoffensive, good-natured being, with a turned-up nose, and rather turned-in legs, a cast in his eye, and a halt in his gait; and he divided his time between the church and his school, verily believing that there existed not, on the face of the earth, so clever a man as the curate, so imposing an apartment as the vestry-room, or so well-ordered a seminary as his own.
The expression of the face, an assumed aloofness and superiority tempered by a feeble envy; the attitude of the body and limbs, an attitude of studious and scholarly dignity, given away by the fidgety pose of the turned-in feet these things were terrible.
I was beginning to feel on a very friendly footing there, and, partly owing to Winnie's graphic powers of narration, I took an increasing interest in Ruth Schuyler. As Win had said, she looked charming, although pathetic in her black robes. She permitted herself a touch of white at the turned-in throat, and a white flower was tucked in her bodice.
Jane was one of the children whom Caroline and Catherine Young had taken especial delight in teasing. "Jane, Jane! Fat and plain; With a button nose and turned-in toes," they would call after her, until the little girl dreaded the very sight of them.
A few minutes showed us that our monkey-jackets must come off; and, cold as it was, we stood in our shirt-sleeves, in a perspiration; and were glad enough to have it eight bells, and the wheel relieved. We turned-in and slept as well as we could, though the sea made a constant roar under her bows, and washed over the forecastle like a small cataract. At four o'clock, we were called again.
"I see a wild-looking child with yellow eyes, a mat of curly black hair, a lank little bodice, her two thin brown arms embracing a gaunt old dog with crooked legs, big feet and turned-in toes." "Is that all?" "All." "You do not see latent beauty, proud courage, and a possible great gulf of love in that poor wild little face?" "Nothing of the kind," replied Christine decidedly.
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