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"Oh, madam, my dearest madam," exclaimed the Admiral in a voice broken with feeling, "how am I to thank you? What words do your angelic goodness leave me for the conveyance of my gratitude?",Shipley threw back his head and chuckled a wheezing laugh. "Loramity! Benjamin," he choked, "can't you get his reason fer that? He wants to make sure that all the prayer-meetin' folks will be gone home. It wouldn't do fer 'em to see us helpin' keep the deacon's pigs from cholery. Ain't that like the smooth old weasel, though?","On the money earned by the carriage of cargo, sir.","It's failed ye have, as I knowed ye wud," he chuckled. "Ye best be lavin' now, both av ye, wid yer pranks.","Hello," Anson accosted. "Goin' to school?",Anson nodded.,"But Bill," urged Jim, "the oil they've found there'll make you rich.",Stanhope sank back on his box, his relaxed nerves throbbing and his lips forming the words: "Thank God!",Billy tried further inducements. "I'll give you my new red tie an' celluloid collar," he offered.,Just as the Admiral was cutting a second helping for himself from the round of beef, which being English was choicely tasted, he heard his son's footsteps in the passage outside, and after a short interval, during which Mr Lawrence fitted himself for the dinner table, that gentleman walked in. He was almost immediately followed by the old housekeeper with hot plates. She was very fond of Mr Lawrence. She would listen for his footsteps. He was still "Master Walter" with her, and would remain so. She had once, on hearing of his money troubles, offered to lend him from her slender savings. But whatever may have been his character he was a sailor in this: he would not take money from a woman.,Her lips tightened. Her hands unclenched and gripped the table as she slowly arose.,"Put him into the Royal Navy," said the Admiral. "The King wants chips of old blocks like you.".