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"Well, I was afraid that sooner or later something like this would happen," he remarked with downcast eyes, "and I would be jerked up sharp and the darned thing taken away from me. Blast that man Weelum Budd, anyhow!
On the Sound, is the first great change that befalls a vessel as she goes to sea; then comes the offing; next the pilot is discharged then then what comes next, Captain Spike?" "Then the vessel takes her departure an old navigator like yourself, Madam Budd, ought not to forget the departure." "Quite true, sir. The departure is a very important portion of a seaman's life.
Upon this principle I should be very ready for one to declare that all the suggested Datcherys were really blinds; merely because they can naturally be suggested. I would undertake to maintain that Mr. Datchery is really Miss Twinkleton, who has a mercenary interest in keeping Rosa Budd at her school. This suggestion does not seem to me to be really much more humorous than Mr.
The principal obstacle was in overcoming the difficulties made by the aunt, Biddy appearing to like the notion quite as much as "Miss Rosy." As for the light-house, Mrs. Budd had declared nothing would induce her to go there; for she did not doubt that the place would soon be, if it were not already, haunted.
Toward noon, Mulford had insisted on the females dividing one of the oranges between them, and extracting its juice by way of assuaging their thirst. The effect was most grateful, as all admitted, and even Mrs. Budd urged Harry and Tier to take a portion of the remaining orange; but this both steadily refused.
Gracious!" added the rancher, "for myself, I'd rather lost half the herd than Cap." "It seems to me," said Budd, after smoking a moment in silence, "that although them 'dog Injins' was pretty smart in getting out of the way when we come down on 'em, they weren't smart in trying to run off the cattle. They must have known we'd find it out at daylight and would be after 'em hot-footed."
There's a time, howsomever, in every man's life, when he begins to think of settling down, and of considerin' himself as a sort of mooring-chain, for children and the likes of them to make fast to. Such is my natur', I will own; and ever since I've got to be intimate in your family, Madam Budd, that sentiment has grown stronger and stronger in me, till it has got to be uppermost in all my idees.
"Why have you remained another voyage with such a man, Harry?" she asked, earnestly. "Because, as his first officer, I have had access to your house, when I could not have had it otherwise; and because I have apprehended that he might persuade Mrs. Budd, as he had boasted to me it was his intention to do, to make this voyage."
The last sat at her work, which had now got to be less awkward to her, with her eyes bent on her needle, her countenance rigid, and, so far as the eye could discern, her feelings unmoved. "Your husband speaks to you, Jack Tier," said Rose, pointedly. "May yours never have occasion to speak to you, Rose Budd, in the same way," was the solemn answer.
"Not in the least, aunty. My uncle often tried to explain it, but I never could understand him." "It must have been, then, because Captain Budd did not try to make himself comprehended," said Mulford, "for I feel certain nothing would be easier than to make you understand the uses of the chronometer." "I should like to learn it from you, Mr.
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