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The crew, with the exception of Dowse, were small men getting into years, and quite unable to cope with him. His attitude with the skipper was dangerously deferential, and the latter was sorely perplexed to think of a way out of the mess in which he found himself. "He means business, George," he said one day to the mate, as he saw the "Bruiser" watching him intently from the galley.
So for a year or two the child was happy. Then came that day, never to be forgotten by her, of the visit to old Mr. Bowdoin at Nahant. They went down in a steamboat together, two little Bowdoin girls, younger than Mercedes, a boy, Harley, and a cousin, who was Dorothea Dowse.
Miss Dowse had rejected the proffered stick of candy, and Mercedes sought a chance to give hers away, one end unsucked. There was this boy in the party, Harleston Bowdoin, so she made a favor of it and gave it to him. They were playing on the rail of the steamboat, and Jamie was sitting respectfully apart inside.
"So, sir, it was you kicking up that devil of a dust outside there, was it?" "Yes, sir," says Mr. James. "Precisely so, sir. I am glad your memory is better than your intelligence. I told you to sweep it out, and not all outdoors in." Mr. James bowed, and wondered how he was to speak of Miss Dowse at this moment.
Some political talk followed, in which Dowse's Yorkshire wit scored more than once at his employer's expense. Dowse, indeed, let himself go. He was on the point of taking the examination for an under-manager's certificate and leaving the valley. Hence there were no strong reasons for servility, and he might talk as he pleased to a young "swell" who had sold himself to reaction.
"West Wind, ahoy!" shouted the same officer who had spoken before. "On board the steamer!" replied French, when he was directed to reply. "Dowse that glim on your fo'castle!" shouted the officer, as with a liberal dose of profanity he demanded if they were all fools on board of the schooner. "Put out every light on board!"
Courtenay just then emerged from the companion with a lighted cigar in his mouth, which he had helped himself to in the brief interval of rest following the floating of the schooner. The spark at the end of the weed glowed brightly in the intense darkness, and could probably be seen for a considerable distance. "Dowse that cigar, Courtenay, quick!"
There the potential Dibdin or Dowse gathers his library on a single pendulous shelf more fair to him than the hanging gardens of Babylon. Hannah More too much neglected in maturer life.
"In some years after, I met at the house of Mr. Joshua Clarke, Q.C., in Dublin, Mr. Dowse, then a rising barrister, now a Baron of the Court of Exchequer, who addressed me, saying, 'We are old acquaintances; to which I replied that I thought he was mistaken, as I had never the pleasure of meeting him before.
At Argall's departure in the spring of 1619, it was listed as one of seven Virginia settlements with Henrico being another. When Yeardley arrived just a little later both Arrahatock and Henrico were listed among the forts, towns and plantations which he found. In the Assembly of 1619 Thomas Dowse and John Polentine represented the "citty of Henricus" and must have spoken for Arrahatock as well.
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