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He was happy, for she had received him with a thousand charming coquetries; and he had paid his court to her, yet he did not interrupt his work for a single day! "I have a simple little chamber," he wrote to Mme Carraud, "from which I can see the entire valley. I force myself pitilessly to rise at five o'clock in the morning, and I work beside my window until five-thirty in the afternoon.
He had various things to do before turning in including, I suppose, the purchase of his cook's mate's outfit and he was to sail at five-thirty in the morning. If his new deck-hand and cook's mate would come alongside at five or thereabouts, he would see to their adequate reception. "You wouldn't like to ship along with me, too, Mr.
The wind will carry it down the throat of the Fritzes. We shall find 'em dead." So men I met had talked of that new weapon which most of them hated. It was at five-thirty when the men busy with the cylinders turned on little taps. There was a faint hissing noise, the escape of gas from many pipes.
Every morning at five o'clock the rising gong was beaten by the cook's helper, and at five-thirty the men had breakfast. The families ate at six-thirty, and at seven-thirty an hour was given to study of the daily lessons. Then an hour of freedom came, followed by three hours of close application to school.
He could give it until five-thirty with profit; but he could take several afternoons off, from three-thirty until five-thirty or six, and no one would be the wiser. It was customary for Aileen to drive alone almost every afternoon a spirited pair of bays, or to ride a mount, bought by her father for her from a noted horse-dealer in Baltimore.
We were up at five-thirty, had cocoa and biscuits, and then an hour of physical drill or bayonet practice. At eight came breakfast of tea, bacon, and bread, and then we drilled until twelve. Dinner. Out again on the parade ground until three thirty. After that we were free. Nights we would go into Dover and sit around the "pubs" drinking ale, or "ayle" as the cockney says it.
She was a "quitter." For half an hour she remained in the office, but she left promptly at five-thirty, though her desk was choked with work and though Mr. Ross telephoned that he would be back before six, which was his chivalrous way of demanding that she stay till seven. Mr. Schwirtz was coming to see her that evening. He had suggested vaudeville. She dressed very carefully.
"Well, I saw the most dazzling future for her when she used to give garden parties in Torso, with only two unattached men who were possible in the place! And at least she might have had a small home in the suburbs and an adoring husband home at five-thirty, but she wasn't that kind.... Poor Bess! I am sorry for her."
Some captains through vanity and ignorance believed it to be "classy" to keep the men of the afternoon watch below on deck with the rest, and the sailor who had to take the helm at 6 p.m. was sent to have tea at five-thirty; the others were kept at it until six. Then the apprentices had to clear up the decks and sweep them down with a hair brush.
Of course the glamour would not last; it never did, but he felt he could sustain it until yonder chap was off and away. That evening at five-thirty Kitty received a box of beautiful roses, with Cutty's card. "Oh, the lovely things!" she cried. She kissed them and set them in a big copper jug, arranged and rearranged them for the simple pleasure it afforded her.
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