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"Why, sir," answered the Captain, "it is true that we was chased, but that didn't make us the voyage the young lady's obliging enough to praise us for. Off the Scillies a French frigate hove in sight on the weather bow, but what could she do with us? I eased off and got her abeam, soon afterwards on the quarter; I then luffed, sir, making a tight jam of it, and crossed her bows at the distance of about three mile. She threw a few shot at us, but what's a frigate a-going to do with a[Pg 93] vessel as can look up as the Aurora does, until by thunder the wind seems blowing fore-and-aft?" Lucy bit her under-lip, but certainly the general expression of her face was not one of displeasure. The great dog rose and came slowly across to him. "Good boy!" Billy slapped him roughly on the shoulder, and he whined..
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"But you were never at sea. You'll be sick in your hammock, and I shall be wanting some one to wait upon me." "I'll talk things over with Billy in the mornin'," promised Wilson as he took the boot-jack from its peg. "He's tryin' to coax me away from his treasure," Billy answered. "Now, jest watch him." "The Army!" he cried. "Could you put a greater indignity upon a sailor than to compel him to shoulder a handspike and march up and down as though he were a soldier?".
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