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Springhaven

Chapter 2 WITH HER CREW AND CARGO

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ose who read this history, the name of Zebede

ace that insisted on, and therefore possessed, all its own rights so firmly as this village did. Not less than seven stout fishing-smacks-six of them sloops, and the seventh a dandy-formed the marine power of this place, and behaved as one multiplied by seven. All the bold fishermen held their line from long-established ancestry, and stuck to the stock of their grandfathers, and their wisdom and freedom from prejudice. Strength was cond

is own business, and there was not a woman unable to wait (when her breath was quite gone) for sound reason. Solidity, self-respect, pure absence of fr

you can; be at home in good time on a Saturday; never work harder than you need; throw your fish away rather than undersell it; answer no question, but ask ano

ise, hot labor, or fervid ambition; and although they counted things by money, they did not count one another so. They never encouraged a friend to work so hard as to grow too wealthy, and if he did so, they expected him to grow more generous than he liked to be. And as

indifference. His head and legs have got into a state of firm confidence in one another, and all these declare-with the rest of the body performing as chorus gratis-that now they are come to a smaller affair, upon which they intend

he has paid for as well as made it-the biggest and smartest of all the fleet, that dandy-rigged smack, the Rosalie. He was proud of her, as he well might be, and spent most of his time in thinking of her; but even she was scarcely up to the size of his ideas. "Stiff in the

well yearned for no hot speed in his friends, or his house, or his wife, or his walk, or even his way of thinking. He had seen more harm come

s a brave young man, with great understanding of his dooties. But he goeth too fast, without clearing of his way. With a man lik

aughter of an admiral, no mean critic. And sure enough, as punctual as in a well-conducted scheme of war, and with nice f

pon either quarter, in the comfort and leisure of the new-born peace, they spread their sails with sunshine. Even the warl

elbow, patch upon breeches, or sprawl of walking toward the attentive telescope, pretty nearly who everybody of them was, and whatever el

and peace was reigning; and the proper British feeling of contempt for snivelly Frenchmen, which produces the entente cordiale, had replaced the wholesome dread of them. Not that Spr

re was joy in the greeting the land held out, and in the more versatile expression of the sea. And not beneath the contempt of one who strives to get into everything, were the creases and patches of the sails of smacks, a

Tugwell. His mighty legs were spread at ease, his shoulders solid against a cask, his breast (like an elephant's back in width, and bearing a bright blue crown tattooed) shone out of the scarlet woolsey, whose plaits were filled with the golden shower of a curly beard, untouched with gray. And his face was quite

to have his own way, so thoroughly dauntless, and such a grand beard! Ten times more like an admiral than old Flapfin or my father is, if he only knew how to hold his pipe. There is something

r lounged on the deck, if there was one. But to steal an unsuspected view at a young man very well known to her, and acknowledged (not only by his mother and himself, but also by every girl in

m of having any hope of me, because he has not happened to be born a gentleman! But he looks a thousand times more lik

ther. But at present Dan Tugwell was as tender to the core as a marrowfat dallying till its young duck should be ready; because Dan was podding into his first love. To the sym

s; but I don't see how anybody can blame me. But here comes daddy, with dear old Fl

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1 Chapter 1 WHEN THE SHIP COMES HOME2 Chapter 2 WITH HER CREW AND CARGO3 Chapter 3 AND HER TRUE COMMANDER4 Chapter 4 AND HER FAITHFUL CHAPLAIN5 Chapter 5 OPINION, MALE AND FEMALE6 Chapter 6 AS OTHERS SEE US7 Chapter 7 A SQUADRON IN THE DOWNS8 Chapter 8 A LESSON IN THE AENEID9 Chapter 9 THE MAROON10 Chapter 10 ACROSS THE STEPPING-STONES11 Chapter 11 NO PROMOTION12 Chapter 12 AT THE YEW-TREE13 Chapter 13 WHENCE, AND WHEREFORE 14 Chapter 14 A HORRIBLE SUGGESTION15 Chapter 15 ORDEAL OF AUDIT16 Chapter 16 FOX-HILL17 Chapter 17 SEA-SIDE LODGINGS18 Chapter 18 FRENCH AND ENGLISH19 Chapter 19 IN THE LINE OF FIRE20 Chapter 20 AMONG THE LADIES21 Chapter 21 A GRACIOUS MERCY22 Chapter 22 A SPECIAL URGENCY23 Chapter 23 YOH-HEAVE-OH!24 Chapter 24 ACCORDING TO CONTRACT25 Chapter 25 NO CONCERN OF OURS26 Chapter 26 LONG-PIPE TIMES27 Chapter 27 FAIR IN THEORY28 Chapter 28 FOUL IN PRACTICE29 Chapter 29 MATERNAL ELOQUENCE30 Chapter 30 PATERNAL DISCIPLINE31 Chapter 31 SORE TEMPTATION32 Chapter 32 THE TRIALS OF FAITH33 Chapter 33 FAREWELL, DANIEL34 Chapter 34 CAULIFLOWERS35 Chapter 35 LOYAL, AYE LOYAL36 Chapter 36 FAIR CRITICISM37 Chapter 37 NEITHER AT HOME38 Chapter 38 EVERYBODY'S MASTER39 Chapter 39 RUNNING THE GAUNTLET40 Chapter 40 SHELFING THE QUESTION41 Chapter 41 LISTENERS HEAR NO GOOD42 Chapter 42 ANSWERING THE QUESTION43 Chapter 43 LITTLE AND GREAT PEOPLE44 Chapter 44 DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN45 Chapter 45 FATHER, AND CHILD46 Chapter 46 CATAMARANS47 Chapter 47 ENTER AND EXIT48 Chapter 48 MOTHER SCUDAMORE49 Chapter 49 EVIL COMMUNICATIONS50 Chapter 50 HIS SAVAGE SPIRIT51 Chapter 51 STRANGE CRAFT52 Chapter 52 KIND ENQUIRIES53 Chapter 53 TIME AND PLACE54 Chapter 54 IN A SAD PLIGHT55 Chapter 55 IN SAVAGE GUISE56 Chapter 56 THE SILVER VOICE57 Chapter 57 BELOW THE LINE58 Chapter 58 IN EARLY MORN59 Chapter 59 NEAR OUR SHORES60 Chapter 60 NO DANGER, GENTLEMEN61 Chapter 61 DISCHARGED FROM DUTY62 Chapter 62 THE WAY OUT OF IT63 Chapter 63 THE FATAL STEP64 Chapter 64 WRATH AND SORROW65 Chapter 65 TRAFALGAR66 Chapter 66 THE LAST BULLETIN