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He bolts about like a mad cracker," cried Adams. "There, I have him now. Stand clear all!" Gently did the seaman raise the big fish to the surface, and very tenderly did he play him, on observing that he was not well hooked. "Come along, my beauty! What a wopper! Won't he go down without sauce? Pity I've got no kleek to gaff him. Not quite so close, Dan, he'll get Hah!"
"Well, since papa only binds us to the brown and black, it will be a nice thing if we could fall in with a skin of the ringed and silver varieties. It would please him all the better. I wonder now what sort is this fellow we are following? By the size of his tracks he must be a wopper!"
"Here's where it is," he continued, drawing his chair closer to that of Mrs Roby; "when Willum made me his exikooter, so to speak, he said to me, `Wopper, says he, `I'm not one o' them fellers that holds on to his cash till he dies with it in his pocket.
Having lost his fish, you see, he could afford to be critical while he fixed on another bait. But Tim cared not for rivers or names just then, having hooked a "real wopper," which gave him some trouble to land. When landed, it proved to be the finest fish of the lot, much to Eve's satisfaction, who sat down to watch the process when Adam renewed the bait.
"Captain Wopper," she suddenly exclaimed, looking up and drawing a note from her pocket, "do you know this?" I never was good at pot-hooks and hangers." "And do you know this letter?" said Emma, holding up to the seaman's eyes her uncle William's last letter to herself. The Captain looked surprised, then became suddenly red and confused. "W'y ye-es, it's Willum's, ain't it?"
Susan admitted that it was nothing; and they both returned at intervals in the packing, during the remainder of that day, to have another look at the bonnet-debris, and enjoy a fresh explosion over it. We are back again in London in Mrs Roby's little cabin at the top of the old tenement in Grubb's Court. Captain Wopper is there, of course. So is Mrs Roby.
The Professor was dull, because, having to leave, this was to be his last excursion; Captain Wopper was dull, because his cherished matrimonial hopes were being gradually dissipated. He could not perceive that Lawrence was falling in love with Emma, or Emma with Lawrence.
Being naturally a straightforward man, and not gifted with much power in the way of plotting and scheming, Captain Wopper began in time to discover that he had plunged his mental faculties into a disagreeable state of confusion.
"Now, do come with us, Captain Wopper," he said; "it will be such fun, and we should all enjoy you so much wouldn't we, Emma?" You've been accustomed no doubt to climb up the shrouds to the crosstrees; well, in Switzerland, you may climb up the hills to any sort of trees you like, and get shrouded in mist, or tumble over a precipice and get put into your shroud altogether; and "
To all this Captain Wopper listened in perfect silence, with a blank expression on his face that revealed nothing of the state of feeling within. "Oh! Captain Wopper," exclaimed the poor lady anxiously, "surely surely you won't forsake me!
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