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He saw, too, that his glance was noticed, for the beachcomber said with a hoarse laugh: "Oh, yes, I drink tea too. But put another bottle of that stuff on the table as well." They passed out into the saloon, and Carey made at once for the door. "Where are you going, boy?" cried the beachcomber.
Carey nodded, and from some half-conceived and misty notion that he could not even analyse to himself, more than that it had something to do with trying to make himself as much master of the black fellows as the beachcomber seemed to be, he went about the work with alacrity, finding Bostock with his jacket off and sleeves rolled up, fast filling a basket with ship's biscuit.
Yes, Carey had heard that a sharp cracking tearing sound as of wood splitting and snapping, and as the sounds continued it was easy enough for the listeners in the dark to imagine what was going on, and that the old beachcomber was preparing his mine. "Here, Jackum," said Carey, in a sharp whisper. There was a quick movement, and the black squatted beside the lad.
Land is always near, and the flotsam and jetsam, do they not supply that smack of excitement if not the boisterous hope bereft of which life might seem "always afternoon?" These chronicles are toned from first to last by perceptions which came to the Beachcomber perceptions which lead, mayhap, to a subdued and sober estimate of the purpose and bearing of the pilgrimage of life.
Sailing for the Marquesas, instead of the runaways we shipped six Kanakas, or natives, an Englishman, a beachcomber, or runaway sailor, who had been living on the island for several years, a Portuguese, and a Sandwich Islander. I mention them to show the heterogeneous materials of which the crews of English whalers were composed.
The beachcomber gave her a glance half rage, half pity; then with his left hand he suddenly dashed her aside, and with a ferocious yell sprang at Melton and thrust a dagger into the throat of the unfortunate man. In an instant his savage followers began their work of slaughter, and Mr.
It might have been the emblem of a tragic event that the Beachcomber single-handed was not able to investigate. As a matter of fact, it was only a temporary datum of one of His Majesty's surveying ships engaged in attempting to set the bounds of the Barrier. Rarely do we sail about without enjoying the zest of the chance of getting something for nothing.
"For the Beachcomber, when not a mere ruffian, is the poor relation of the artist."
There is such a place, and now that my time is coming near, I'll tell you where it is, and you, Mrs. Tracey, who have nursed the old drunken, blackguard beachcomber, and asked him to seek strength from God to keep off the cursed grog, will be one of the richest women in the world. I wrote it all down four or five months ago, in case when you came back here you found I was dead.
As soon as he caught Carey's eye he laughed loudly, and in the most perfectly good-humoured way, as if they were the very best of friends, and when the beachcomber was looking another way he raised one hand to go through the pantomime of licking treacle off his fingers and rubbing his front, to the delight of his toiling companions. It did Carey good, and he smiled back, and nodded.
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