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He was a tall, lank, powerful fellow; anyone acquainted with the West-country would have known him for one of the swarthy, gray-eyed Cornish stock. "I am pretty busy but your tale, Herbert, was a startler. If I can help you or Barnes command me. He is coming this afternoon?" Herbert French pointed his visitor to a chair. "Of course.
Not a captain, not an officer who served under Drake, ever flinched or blundered. Never was such a school for seamen as that twenty years' privateering war between the servants of the Pope and the West-country Protestant adventurers. Those too must be remembered who built and rigged the ships in which they sailed and fought their battles.
'For many reasons, my dear Fergus, you must hold me excused. Or what say you to un petit pendement bien joli? against which awkward ceremony I don't warrant you, should you meet a body of the armed West-Country Whigs. 'And why should they use me so? said Waverley. 'For a hundred good reasons, answered Fergus.
The West-country people are apt to attribute these paroxysms to the possession of a devil; and so did Grace that night. Trembling with terror and loving pity, she lay down, and began to pray afresh for that poor wild mother. At last the fear crossed her that her mother might make away with herself.
"I'll serve him out for this." "Fried, of course, sir?" came from the kitchen. "Murder, woman, no!" roared Uncle Paul. "Fry! That is wild west-country ignorance, madam!
Within were two parlours for the rich, and two kitchens for the poor, which the neighbours thought very grand; and one day in the harvest season, when this rich farmer's corn had been all cut down and housed, he invited them to a harvest supper. The west-country people came in their holiday clothes.
At any rate her fiancé has just broken off the engagement, and that's why she is going away for a little while very naturally to some relations in the west-country, I think." So she had been engaged only for nine weeks, indeed but still, it was a little disappointing.
Her appearance, at all events, was not "too matter-of-fact." Her speech, however, with its slight West-Country burr, was matter-of-fact enough, concerned entirely with how long she would have to sit, and the pay she was to get for it.
It was only me, and you know what I am. I didn't mean no offence." "Well, it was offensive," said Rodd. "How would you like to be laughed at?" "Me, sir?" cried the man merrily. "Me who has been knocking about the sea nearly all my life, first in a west-country fishing-boat, and then in a King's ship, and been in action! Like being laughed at!
Seeing that he was bagging to leeward, like a west-country barge laden with a haystack, in this sailing-match of wits, he broke up the conference by observing, "You had better, doctor, in consideration of your weakness, retire to your cabin. I certainly cannot, seeing my near prospect of your invaluable legacy, in any honesty wish you better."
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