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"Now I have seen it spelt the same as in 'church." "The same as in ch ?" Mr. Fett fixed him with a glassy but reproachful eye. "Badcock, you are premature, premature and indelicate."
"Why, this," said I, "that we passed some score of them in the meadow below. I saw them plain by the moonlight, and kicked at them to make sure." "I did better," said Mr. Fett; I gathered a dozen or two in my cap, foreseeing breakfast. Faith, and while you have been gadding I might have had added a rasher of bacon. Did you meet any hogs on your way?
The camp itself has been safe enough, and so have the meadow and the path down to the creek. You will remember that Billy was roaming the meadow for mushrooms at the very time we lost Mr. Fett: yet Billy came to no harm.
Fett in a hand-cart, we trundled them down to the shore and lifted them aboard. They resisted not, nor stirred. By three o'clock our dispositions were made and Captain Pomery professed himself ready to cast off. I returned to the house for the last time, to awake and fetch Nat Fiennes. As I crossed the wet sward the day broke and a lark sprang from the bracken and soared above me singing.
On the contrary, the night seemed intolerably close and sultry, as though brooding a thunderstorm. When the xebec's fires died down, darkness settled on us like a cap. The only light came from the water, where our oars swirled it in pools of briming, or the tow-rope dropped for a moment and left for another moment a trail of fire. Neither Mr. Fett nor Mr.
"Man," said I, "you shall tell us your story as soon as ever you have helped us to a safe lodging. But here are we and there, coming towards us along the quay, are two comrades four Corsicans in all, whose lives, if the Genoese detect us, are not worth five minutes' purchase." "Then, excuse me," said Mr. Fett, becoming serious of a sudden, "but isn't it a damned foolish business that brings you?"
"Pardon me, gentlemen" Mr. Fett wheeled about suddenly on the road ahead of us "but it was by accident that I overheard you, and by a singular coincidence at that moment I happened to be discussing the same subject with Mr. Badcock here." "What subject?" "Missiles, sir. It appears that, when his blood is up, Mr. Badcock finds himself absolutely careless of missiles.
Moreover, our enemies ran in and grappled us just forward of her quarter, where she carried a movable panel in her bulwarks to give access to an accommodation ladder. While Nat, Captain Pomery, Mr. Fett, and the two seamen ran to defend the other side, at a nod from my father I thrust this panel open, leapt back, and Mr.
Fett, who, as Billy asseverated, had promised to take but a short stroll? My father's frown grew darker and yet darker as the minutes wore on and still no voice answered our hailing. The sun was declining fast when he gave the order to return to camp, which we found as we had left it.
"I feel sure, sir" my father bowed to him from the saddle "it will lose nothing in the telling." The young man, having fastened the rose in his hat, bade adieu to his late assailant with a bow; waved a hand to her; lifted his hat a second time; turned after us and, falling into stride by my father's stirrup, forthwith plunged into his story. "My name, sir, is Phineas Fett " He paused.
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