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Captain Collyer also did his best to prepare his crew for an encounter whenever it might come, and the men were kept constantly exercising at the great guns and small-arms, and, for a change, at shortening and making sail, till they had all learned to work well together.
Oliver had known, but which had temporarily slipped his mind that Robert Collyer was a very great preacher, a Unitarian who had graduated out of orthodoxy, and who in his youth had been a blacksmith. "Why didn't he stay a blacksmith, if he was a good one, and let it go at that?" But this Nicar couldn't answer.
Our mother put down her letters, and her fond eyes glanced round on our faces. Her countenance was unusually grave. Again my father looked at the document in his hand. "Captain Collyer says he should not be more than fourteen. Marmaduke, that is your age. What do you say on the subject?" said my father. "Joliffe, what is it all about?" asked my mother, with a slight trepidation in her voice.
I am proud, I am happy, I am," and he threw his arms round his wife's neck, in spite of all the company present, and bestowing on her a hearty kiss, gave way to a jovial cheer, in which Grey and I and the lawyer, and even Captain Collyer, could not help joining.
Robert Collyer, on "literary righteousness," quizzing me for using one of his anecdotes in my sketch of Lucretia Mott, without giving him credit. I laughed him to scorn, that he should have thought it was my duty to have done so.
They could not conceive it possible two such ugly fellows should be found in the same squadron. Fortunately Mr Bryan was with us, and having plenty of presence of mind, he began to talk about Fitzgerald's naval brother who remained on board. Captain Collyer, however, thought it prudent to prohibit him from again appearing in a military character on shore.
I have the honor of a slight acquaintance with Robert Collyer. I have read with pleasure some of his exquisite productions. He has a brain full of the dawn, the head of a philosopher, the imagination of a poet, and the sincere heart of a child. Is a minister to be silenced because he speaks fairly of a noble and candid adversary?
Night was coming on, and it was blowing very fresh. "A sail on the lee bow!" shouted the look-out from the mast-head. The wind was south-west, and the frigate was close-hauled, heading towards Ushant. "What do you make of her? Which way is she standing?" asked Captain Collyer, who was on deck. "Looks like a lugger, standing up Channel," was the answer.
He had directed Captain Collyer to look out for the Uranius and another frigate, the Emerald, and to proceed off Point Saint Matthieu, to watch the French and Spanish fleets then lying in Brest harbour. After cruising for a couple of days, we fell in with the other frigate, and thus all together proceeded to our destination. We soon reached it.
Too palpably our hero had been overwhelmed by his passion for fictitious prose narrative. "Hold on, Billy! back up," broke in Solon. "This is business, you know this isn't an Old Cap' Collyer tale." "Well, anyway," resumed Billy, a little abashed, "I silenced the girl. I threatened to have her transported for life if she breathed a word. Mebbe she didn't suspect anything after all.
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