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Updated: June 12, 2025
In the meantime, my friend Captain Battleax has below a guard of fifty marines, who will pay you the respect of escorting you on board with two of the ship's cutters. Everything that can be there done for your accommodation and comfort, every luxury which can be provided to solace the President of this late republic, shall be afforded.
As I spoke I made him a gracious bow, and I think I showed him by my mode of address that I did not bear any grudge as to my individual self. "I have come to your shores, Mr President, with the purpose of seeing how things are progressing in this distant quarter of the world." "Things were progressing, Captain Battleax, pretty well before this morning.
There's a new Battleax wonder if those two speed differentials are going to work out. All right, Jim, I'll reluctantly shut up and focus my attention on the salmon-colored cloaks and green stockings for a while. I forgot that you don't take any deep, abiding interest in automobiles. All they mean to you is something to ride in, but to me they're as interesting as a new magazine.
This was simply the opinion of Captain Battleax, and expressed in the presence of the gentleman himself whom he so lauded. "But what is the delicate mission?" I asked. Then Sir Ferdinando told his whole story, which I think should have been declared before I had been asked to sit down to dinner with him in company with the captain on board the ship.
On arriving at home at my own residence, I found that our salon was filled with a brilliant company. We did not usually use the room; but on entering the house I heard the clatter of conversation, and went in. There was Captain Battleax seated there, beautiful with a cocked-hat, and an epaulet, and gold braid.
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