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Verity, as I said to you that Hozier was good enough to take charge of the bridge of a battleship. By well, any 'ow, if I'd said the Channel Fleet I shouldn't 'ave bin talkin' through me 'at. Look at 'im now. 'E's the on'y reel live man Dom Wot's-'is-name 'as got.
During three long weeks of boating against the wind those wretched men were compelled to drink stout morning, noon, and night, and never did temperance argument apply with greater force to the seafaring community than toward the end of that enforced regimen of malt liquor. Hozier, who had aroused her by touching her shoulder, fancied he saw the gleam of merriment in her face.
In 1814 we find those of Georges' accomplices who had escaped the scaffold among whom were Hozier and Amand Gaillard, scattered among the prisons of the kingdom, in the fortresses of Ham, Joux, and Bouillon. Others who had been sent under surveillance forty leagues from Paris and the seacoast, reappeared, ruined by ten years of enforced idleness, threats and annoyances.
They reasoned and whacked the runaways into obedience, picked up quite a number of men who were willing enough to fight if told what was expected of them and the rest was a matter of simple strategy such as Macaulay's schoolboy would exhibit in the escalade of a snow fort. But it was a near thing. Five minutes later, and Hozier might have seized the presidency himself.
"I am glad of the accident that brought me on deck somewhat earlier than was necessary," she said. "You and I have not said much to each other since you routed me out of the lazaretto, Mr. Hozier." "Our friends at table are somewhat difficult. If only you knew how I regretted " "Oh, what of that? When I became a stowaway I fully expected to be treated as one.
Hozier was deputed to obtain the girl's consent to the proposal he had already put before her. He feared that she would refuse compliance, for he understood her fine temper better than the others.
At once she whispered to Hozier: "Is there anyone on the path below?" "No," he said. "The Brazilians are with Coke at the top of the gully." "Is it safe for us to go the other way." "I think so. But you must be careful not to slip." She caught his arm, little knowing the thrill her clasp sent through his frame. This simple gesture of her confidence was bitter-sweet.
As the yarn progressed for Watts and Schmidt and Norrie had joined them, and the whole party was seated in an inner room where an impromptu meal was provided both the woman of Brazil and the man of Lancashire seized on the same unspoken motif. Every incident centered in the striking personality of Philip Hozier.
They moved out from their niche, and San Benavides blustered into vehement French. "We are going to the landing-place before it is too dark," he muttered angrily. "We must not show a light; in a few minutes the path will be most dangerous. Please make haste, mademoiselle. We did not know where you had gone." "The men knew," suggested Hozier in the girl's ear.
Hozier, of course, realized that there was a certain element of risk in returning there. The island authorities would surely endeavor to find out where the party of desperadoes had lain perdu between the sinking of the ship and the attack on the picket.
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