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He and one fellow in a blue coat, white duck trousers, and a blue cap that never left his head, had a great chat. "I callate that if he didn't have that cap with the button on front nobody'd know he was a real yachtsman, would they?" Eddie Parsons whispered in my ear.
It was carried by a yachtsman whom I had not yet seen, and who was conducting two other persons to the pavilion. These two persons were unquestionably the guests for whom the house was made ready; and, straining eye and ear, I set myself to watch them as they passed.
Thus the little banker let me see his little soul, deep down; and there I saw that to pass for a real yachtsman which he would never be able to do was dearer to his pride than to bring off successfully some huge and delicate matter in the world's finance which he could always do supremely well. "I'm just like that, too," I thought to myself; and we returned to the gay Kitty.
Gordon put an end by remarking that the evening papers would doubtless give them a lead; meantime they could get Banneker's version. First to come in was The Evening New Yorker, the most vapid of all the local prints, catering chiefly to the uptown and shopping element. Its heading half-crossed the page proclaiming "Guest of Yachtsman Shoots Down Thugs."
There had not been a breath of air until half an hour before they started; but now a stiff breeze had sprung up; so they had smooth water and yet plenty of wind, and the boat cut swiftly through-the bubbling water. "She walks well," said the yachtsman. Lucy smiled a gracious, though still rather too queenly assent. I think the motion was pleasing her. Lively motion is very agreeable to her sex.
Gregory has no warmer admirer than myself. His picture of "Dawn" is the most fairly famous picture of our time. But since that picture his art has declined. It has lost all the noble synthetical life which comes of long observation and gradual assimilation of Nature. His picture of a yachtsman in this year's Academy was as paltry, as "realistic" as may be.
The seas may fly over her cross-trees, but if you make her trig she comes to her bearings like a shot to its mark; shakes herself as if she was ready for a race, and then away she do go just like a sea-gull for a fish." So they talked the evening away, and Denas listened and watched the handsome yachtsman, kindling and laughing to the tales he told.
"Excuse me," replied the comparatively juvenile and promising artist, "but might I inquire who is going to look after my wife and the kid if that New London congregation should tumble to the joke? No, sir. Mr. Crane, permit me to inform you, is a fearless and experienced yachtsman; every hair in his head, nautically speaking, is a rope yarn.
'We must jibe, said Davies: 'just take the helm, will you? and, without waiting for my co-operation, he began hauling in the mainsheet with great vigour. I had rude notions of steering, but jibing is a delicate operation. No yachtsman will be surprised to hear that the boom saw its opportunity and swung over with a mighty crash, with the mainsheet entangled round me and the tiller.
We're going to buy him another boat as soon as the insurance Company have done talking. Maud, this is my captain, the finest yachtsman you've ever met and my very good friend." He threw his merry, dare-devil glance at Larpent as he made the introduction, and turned immediately to Jake. "You two ought to get on all right.
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