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THE CARGO OF CHAMPAGNE
and showing his dry eyes. ' It 's worse than crying.
It's the horror of that grave that we've escaped
from.'
' Come now, you tackle your soup ; that '11 fix
you,' said Davis kindly. * I told you you were all
broken up. You couldn't have stood out another
week.'
' That 's the dreadful part of it ! ' cried Herrick.
* Another week and I 'd have murdered some one
for a dollar ! God ! and I know that ? And I 'm
still living ? It 's some beastly dream.'
' Quietly, quietly ! Quietly does it, my son.
Take your pea-soup. Food, that 's what you want,'
said Davis.
The soup strengthened and quieted Herrick's
nerves ; another glass of wine, and a piece of pickled
pork and fried banana completed what the soup
began ; and he was able once more to look the
captain in the face.
* I didn't know I was so much run down,' he said.
' Well,' said Davis, ' you were as steady as a rock
all day : now you 've had a little lunch you '11 be as
steady as a rock again.'
* Yes,' was the reply, * I 'm steady enough now,
but I 'm a queer kind of a first officer.'
* Shucks ! ' cried the captain. ' You 've only got
to mind the ship's course, and keep your slate to
half a point. A babby could do that, let alone a
college graduate like you. There ain't nothing to
sailoring, when you come to look it in the face.
And now we'll go and put her about. Bring the
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and showing his dry eyes. ' It 's worse than crying.
It's the horror of that grave that we've escaped
from.'
' Come now, you tackle your soup ; that '11 fix
you,' said Davis kindly. * I told you you were all
broken up. You couldn't have stood out another
week.'
' That 's the dreadful part of it ! ' cried Herrick.
* Another week and I 'd have murdered some one
for a dollar ! God ! and I know that ? And I 'm
still living ? It 's some beastly dream.'
' Quietly, quietly ! Quietly does it, my son.
Take your pea-soup. Food, that 's what you want,'
said Davis.
The soup strengthened and quieted Herrick's
nerves ; another glass of wine, and a piece of pickled
pork and fried banana completed what the soup
began ; and he was able once more to look the
captain in the face.
* I didn't know I was so much run down,' he said.
' Well,' said Davis, ' you were as steady as a rock
all day : now you 've had a little lunch you '11 be as
steady as a rock again.'
* Yes,' was the reply, * I 'm steady enough now,
but I 'm a queer kind of a first officer.'
* Shucks ! ' cried the captain. ' You 've only got
to mind the ship's course, and keep your slate to
half a point. A babby could do that, let alone a
college graduate like you. There ain't nothing to
sailoring, when you come to look it in the face.
And now we'll go and put her about. Bring the
245
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1896 [Date published] |
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T. and A. Constable [Printer] |
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Written and printed matter > Books |
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Dates / events: |
1894-1898 [Date printed] |
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Edinburgh
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Chatto & Windus (Firm) [Distributor] Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] T. and A. Constable [Printer] Longmans, Green, and Co. [Publisher] Colvin, Sidney, 1845-1927 [Editor] |
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Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] |
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