... and cheerful. From his superior height, he was enabled to look down quite royally on the man whose repose he had disturbed. The following conversatio... ...wd of cricketers and farm-labourers, as if discharged from a great gun. ‘A royal salvo!’ said my father, and asked me earnestly whether I had forgotte... .... My father backed a horse to run in the races on Epsom Downs named Prince Royal, only for the reason that his name was Prince Royal, and the horse wo... ...I’m not a prince, I’m a nobleman,’ I said to Temple. He replied, ‘ Army or Navy. I don’t much care which. We’re sure of a foreign war some time. Then ... ...He declared he had been thinking seriously for a long time of entering the Navy, and his admiration of the captain must have given him an intu- ition ... ...nd our com- prehension. The sailor Joe was nowhere to be seen. None of the sailors appeared willing to listen to us, though they stopped as they were ... ...r would leaning over the taffrail, nor lying curled under a tarpaulin. The sailors heaped pilot-coats upon us. It was a bad ship, they said, to be sic... ... remember that night, for I yielded to swearing, and drank too!’ The other sailors roared with laughter. 125 George Meredith I tipped them, not to ap... ...fter our interview with Captain Bulsted he had wished to enter the British Navy. This was no more than a sign that he was highly pleased. For my part ...

...ths, has been chiefly spent by the author tossing about on the wide ocean. Sailors are the only class of men who now-a-days see anything like stirring... ...place as a jacket out at elbows. Yet, notwithstanding the familiar- ity of sailors with all sorts of curious adventure, the incidents recorded in the ... ...e several fine lyrics. The titles of these books are, ‘John Marr and Other Sailors’ (1888), and ‘Timoleon’ (1891). 19 Melville There is no question ... ...-ship of the American squadron, should receive, in state, a visit from the royal pair. The French officer likewise represented, with evident satisfact... ...nd his consort. As they ap- proached, we paid them all the honours clue to royalty;— 25 Melville manning our yards, firing a salute, and making a pro... ...e with his eyes, making him look as if he wore a huge pair of goggles; and royalty in goggles suggested some ludicrous ideas. But it was in the adornm... ...hat our eccentric friend had been a 31 Melville lieutenant in the English navy; but having disgraced his flag by some criminal conduct in one of the ...

... that his fa- ther, as a young page of Louis XIII., gained favour with his royal master by his skill in holding the stirrup, and was fi- nally made a ... ... to private life. Upon his return to Court, taking up apartments which the royal favour had reserved for him at Versailles, Saint- Simon secretly ente... ...he service, except his illegitimate children, and the Princes of the blood royal, should be exempt from serving for a year in one of his two companies... ... brother, the Chevalier de Luynes, who served with much distinction in the navy , and together they arranged the matter. They seized an opportunity wh... ... distinguished people, in addition to those of fifteen hundred soldiers or sailors killed or wounded. T owards evening on the 25th, by dint of maneuve... ...ich are still felt by the State. Pontchartrain, Secretary of State for the Navy, was the plague of it, as of all those who were under his cruel depend... ...ad been conducted to the King by Pontchartrain, who had the affairs of the navy under his control. The courier sent by T esse, who commanded the land ...

...ossing of the Western Ocean—using the words in that special sense in which sailors speak of W estern Ocean trade, of W estern Ocean packets, of Wester... ...hs younger than myself, whose life, lovingly watched over as if she were a royal princess, came to an end with her fifteenth year. There were other ch... ...over the waters about the equator. I wrapped round its unhonoured form the royal mantle of the tropics, and have essayed to put into the hollow sound ... ...sters, Fabians, bricklayers, apostles, ants, scientists, Kafirs, soldiers, sailors, elephants, lawyers, dandies, microbes, and constellations of a uni... ...e in the first person plural which makes it specially fit for critical and royal declarations. I have a small handful of these sea appreciations, sign... ...ble windows shuttered closely. Only here and there a small, dingy cafe for sailors cast a yellow gleam on the bluish sheen of the flagstones. Passing ... ... with the last of the French Bourbons. “I preserved it from the time of my navy service,” he ex- plained, nodding rapidly his frail, vulture-like head...

... and allowances made for faults in indolent despair. My mother thought the Navy the proper element of boy- hood, and her uncle the Admiral promised a ... ...he other day in my mother’s desk, folded over the case of the medal of the Royal Humane Soci- ety, which Griff affected to despise, but which, when he... ...g, perjured Clarence.’ —King Richard III. THERE WAS MUCH stagnation in the Navy in those days in the reaction after the great war; and though our fami... ...t talk; only when my father sighed, ‘We should never have put him into the Navy,’ she hotly replied, ‘How was I to suppose that a son of mine would be... ...f. Captain Brydone was one of the rough old description of naval men, good sailors and stern discipli- narians, but wanting in any sense of moral duti... ...nto longing to flee to the river, and lose the sense of shame among common sailors: but there was always some good angel to hold him back from despera... ...ty, and he would hardly consent to take Griffith with him by the West- ern Royal Mail, warning him and all the rest of us that our expectations would ... ... side-lights had not been obscured by the two T ables of the Law, with the royal arms on the top of the first table, and over the other our own, with ... ...nionship; but in his present mood, the frank rudeness and profanity of the sailors seemed preferable to his cramped life, and the scowls of his fellow...

...l mischief began when Brennan sprang his gyroscopic mono-rail car upon the Royal Society. It was the leading sen- sation of the 1907 soirees; that cel... ...nt, but it was an enormous pro- portion. Great Britain spent upon army and navy money and capacity, that directed into the channels of physical cul- t... ...Washington War Office had made any wholesale attempts to create air aerial navy. It was neces- sary to strike before they could do so. France had a fl... ...r eferywhere— eferywhere. Zey have always relied on ze Atlantic. And their navy. We have selected a certain point—it is at present ze secret of our co... ...d you ever see this thing go op?” Bert jumped. “Saw it from Bun ‘Ill, your Royal Highness.” Von Winterfeld made some explanation. “How fast did it go?... ...interfeld made some explanation. “How fast did it go?” “Couldn’t say, your Royal Highness. The papers, leastways the Daily Courier, said eighty miles ... ...n forward, near the gangway to the men’s mess, stood a little group of air sailors looking at something that was hid- den from him in a recess. One of... ...d all the left side of his body ripped and rent. There was much blood. The sailors stood listening to the man with the helmet, who made explanations a... ... addition, when it became evident that the air must be fought for, the air-sailors were provided with rifles with explosive bullets of oxygen or infla...

...of the national mettle? Where was the first line of England’s defence, her navy? These were questions, and Ministers were called upon to answer them. ... ...he Press answered them boldly, with the appalling statement that we had no navy and no army. At the most we could muster a few old ships, a couple of ... ...llenged the allegations of Government, pointed to the trimness of army and navy during its term of office, and proclaimed itself watch-dog of the coun... ...have given him anything— the last word in favour of the Country versus the royal Mar- tyr, for example, had he insisted on it. She gathered, bit by bi... ...h face con- cerning the declaration of war, and told with approval how the Royal hand had trembled in committing itself to the form of signature to wh... ... go out of it till you are ordered out. Remember that we want soldiers and sailors, we don’t want suicides.’ He condescended to these italics, conside... ...hamp himself behave so badly on an occa- 37 George Meredith sion when the sailors of his battery caught him out of a fire of shell that raised jets o... ...What writing! He was uplifted as ‘The heroical Commander Beauchamp, of the Royal Navy,’ and ‘Commander Beauchamp, R.N., a gentleman of the highest con... ...y pulled for her in the ship’s gig. Wilmore sang out, ‘Give way, men!’ The sailors bent to their oars, and presently the schooner’s head was put to th...

...er, haply turning this page by the fireside at Home, and hearing the night wind rumble in the chimney, that slight obstruction was the uppermost fragm... ... of the cup I drink! But I bow submissive. God must have done right. I do not want to feel less, but to acquiesce more simply. There were some Jewish ... ...refrain from expressing to you my heart- felt thanks on behalf of those of my flock whose relatives have unfortunately been among those who perished a... ...JACK I S THE SWEET little cherub who sits smiling aloft and keeps watch on life of poor Jack, commissioned to take charge of Mercantile Jack, as well ... ...d forks, three-quarters of an hour for the chops, and an hour for the potatoes. On settling the little bill—which was not much more than the day’s pay... ...est public authority in existence. ‘We are told of these unfortunate men being laid low by scurvy,’ said I. ‘Since lime-juice has been regularly store... ... are yet children, and wisely train them, it would make them a part of England’s glory, not its shame—of England’s strength, not its weak- ness—would ... ... ships, under steam and un- Charles Dickens 258 der sail, shall burst forth as will charge the old Medway— where the merry Stuart let the Dutch come,...

...ossing of the Western Ocean—using the words in that special sense in which sailors speak of Western Ocean trade, of Western Ocean packets, of Western ... ...s younger than myself, whose life, lovingly watched over, as if she were a royal princess, came to an end with her fifteenth year. There were other ch... ...over the waters about the Equator. I wrapped round its unhonoured form the royal mantle of the tropics and have essayed to put into the hollow sound t... ... in the first person plural, which makes it specially fit for critical and royal dec- larations. I have a small handful of these sea appre- ciations, ... ...le windows shut- tered closely. Only here and there a small dingy cafe for sailors cast a yellow gleam on the bluish sheen of the flagstones. Passing ... ... with the last of the French Bourbons. “I preserved it from the time of my Navy Service,” he explained, nodding rapidly his frail, vulture-like head. ... ...e inspired talent of Mr. Jacobs for poking endless fun at poor, inno- cent sailors in a prose which, however extravagant in its felicitous invention, ...

...soldierly smartness in his man- ner. T o be exact, he had acquired it in the navy. But that was all one; he had at least been trained to desperate res... ...moved farther on, pursuing the strange Odyssey of his decadence. His days of royal favour had departed even then; but he still retained, in his narrow... ... character of man, without the help of petticoats. The Kingdom of Fife (that royal province) may be ob- served by the curious on the map, occupying a ... ...ng fish, not one but has its legend, quaint or tragic: Dunfermline, in whose royal towers the king may be still observed (in the ballad) drinking the ... ...o this day there still survives a relic of the long winter evenings when the sailors of the great Armada crouched about the hearths of the Fair-Island... ... out sideways like an autumn leaf, and must be hauled in, hand over hand, as sailors haul in the slack of a sail, and propped upon my feet again like ...

...exchanging parting words, on this side commanders calling orders, on that, sailors man ning the vessels, and then the fleet speeding over the waves. ... ...ly Wace, perhaps partly because of his own milieu, partly be cause of his royal patroness, wove into Geoffrey’s narrative more pronouncedly chivalric... ... land nor the flood; the hawks him smite, the hounds him bite, then is the royal fowl at his death time.” 15 Layamon lets his imagination display itse... ...m Vortigern, and went his way. On the morrow, with no longer tarrying, the navy of the brethren arrived at T otnes, and therein a great host of knight... ...nt vested as a monk. In this guise and semblance Appas took his way to the royal court. Being a liar he gave out that he was a good 51 Wace physician... ...remaining on the shore. When the last man had entered in the last ship the sailors raised the anchors, and worked the galleys from the haven. Right di...

...ts drifting cloud wisps of broad stretches of populous country and narrow, navy-crowded seas. And we men, the creatures who inhabit this earth, must b... ... tall, fair-haired man that I afterwards learned was Stent, the Astronomer Royal, with several workmen wielding spades and pickaxes. Stent was giving ... ...rded it in his nest, and discussed the arrival of that shipful of pitiless sailors in want of animal food. “We will peck them to death tomorrow, my de... ...boats and barges jammed in the northern arch of the T ower Bridge, and the sailors and lightermen had to fight savagely against the people who swarmed... ...ts that it is possible to imagine. 92 The War of the Worlds For after the sailors could no longer come up the Thames, they came on to the Essex coast... ...be any more blessed concerts for a million years or so; there won’t be any Royal Academy of Arts, and no nice little feeds at restaurants. If it’s amu...

...e Athenian theaters; neither did Hesiod avail him by calling him “the most royal Minos,” nor Homer, who styles him “Jupiter’s familiar friend;” the tr... ...erope, the daughter of Erechtheus. In the meanwhile he secretly prepared a navy, part of it at home near the village of the Thymoetadae, a place of no... ...erself, being deserted by Theseus. Others that she was carried away by his sailors to the isle of Naxos, and married to Oenarus, priest of Bacchus; an... ...erodorus, write that he made this voyage many years after Hercules, with a navy under his own command, and took the Amazon prisoner, the more probable... ...ight smite and overthrow his en- emy; and the spoils were called opima, or royal spoils, says Varro, from their richness, which the word opes signifie... ...of his eminent virtues, than because he was regent to the king and had the royal power in his hands. Some, however, envied and sought to impede his gr... ... the people against the nobility; the au- thority coming into the hands of sailors and boatswains and pilots. Thus it was one of the orders of the thi... ...r to him at the same time, to deliver into his hands both the army and the navy of the Athenians. This occa- sioned no damage to the Athenians, becaus... ... so close that he forced them on shore, and broke the ships in pieces, the sailors aban- doning them and swimming away, in spite of all the efforts of...

...hest honour. ‘A Member wished to know how many thousand additional lamps the royal property would be illuminated with, on the night after the descent.... ... the construction of a first rate vessel of war for the use of her Majesty’s navy, to be called “The Royal Skewer,” and to become under that name the ... ...irst rate vessel of war for the use of her Majesty’s navy, to be called “The Royal Skewer,” and to become under that name the terror of all the enemie... ... scene is inde scribably solemn. The rippling of the tide, the noise of the sailors’ feet overhead, the gruff voices on the river, the dogs on the sh...

...or some time ambassador at Vienna; Sir Basil Keith, Knight, captain in the navy, who died Governor of Jamaica; and my excellent friend, Anne Murray Ke... ...from the chair:— “The King”—all the honours. “The Duke of Clarence and the Royal Family.” The chairman, in proposing the next toast, which he wished ... ... chiefly in connection with the busi- ness of this meeting, which his late Royal Highness had con- descended in a particular manner to patronize, that... ...nd it was in that view that he proposed to drink to the memory of his late Royal Highness the Duke of York.—Drunk in solemn silence. The chairman then... ...y connected with the theatre, without whom it was impossible to go on. The sailors have a saying, Every man cannot be a boatswain. If there must be a ... ...ellington and the army.” Glee—”How merrily we live.” Lord Melville and the Navy, that fought till they left no- body to fight with, like an arch sport...

... my cleared grass, and count myself an ally in a fair quarrel, and make stout my heart. It is but a little while since I lay sick in Sydney, beating t... ...e of a Tapu. V . The Five Day’s Festival. VI. Domestic Life—(which might be omitted, but not well, better be recast). 51 V ailima Letters THE KING O... ...times better than decrepit peace in Middlesex?I do not quite like politics; I am too aristocratic, I fear, for that. God knows I don’t care who I chum... ...ed in again. It was the first time, since the difference with Laupepa, that Popo and his son had openly joined him, and given him the due cry as Tuiat... ..., two cooked pigs, a cooked shark, two or three cocoanut branches strung with kava, and the turtle, who soon after breathed his last, I believe, from ... ... crest of the beach at the head of the pier; the flag-staff not far off; the pier he will understand is per- haps three feet above high water, not mor... ...atched the departure of successful guests. Sim- ply impossible to tell how well these blue-jackets behaved; a most interesting lot of men; this educat... ...ll went off like a rocket from the start. I had only time to watch Belle careering around with a gallant bluejacket of exactly her own height—the stan...

...her, and a ship was not a home. When the lamps were lit yesterday, and the sailors went tumbling above her head, she had cried; she would cry this eve... ...eing incurably corrupt. Yet how blame, etc.”; while Clarissa inspected the royal stables, and took several snap- shots showing men now exiled and wind... ...olf wanted a slow inquisitive kind of ship, comfortable, for they were bad sailors, but not extravagant, which would stop for a day or two at this por... ...oted another. Life on board a man-of-war was splendid, so they agreed, and sailors, whenever one met them, were quite especially nice and simple. This... ...he other hand, are allowed one footman to stand up behind; dukes have two, royal dukes—so I was told—have three; the king, I suppose, can have as many... ... doesn’t realise how interesting a debate can be until one has sons in the navy. My interests are equally balanced, though; I have sons in the army to... ...was telling me only the other day how difficult it is to find boys for the navy—partly because of their teeth, it is true. And I have heard young wome... ...e, she looked like a gallant lady of the time of Charles the First leading royalist troops into action. “Ride with me,” she commanded; and, as soon as... ...iracle the mascu- line conception of life is—judges, civil servants, army, navy, Houses of Parliament, lord mayors—what a world we’ve made of it! Look...

... behind the trees; saw my old Spaniard, Friday’s father, and the reprobate sailors I left upon the island; nay, I fancied I talked with them, and look... ...ented to me. One time, in my sleep, I had the villainy of the three pirate sailors so lively related to me by the first Spaniard, and Friday’s father,... ...rticularly, being an inland country, I was re- moved from conversing among sailors and things relating to the remote parts of the world. I went down t... ...ry him home to England, and make him captain of the best man-of-war in the navy , he would not go with him if he might not carry his wife and children... ...h thing so far off. Otherwise, what are their buildings to the palaces and royal buildings of Eu- rope? What their trade to the universal commerce of ...

...acredly preserved jewelry of the women. These two classes, and that of the sailors in their jerkins and varnished leather caps are as distinct from on... ... had clasped the sword never, like Joan of Arc, to relinquish it until the royal standard floated in the cathedral of Rheims; hands that were often bl... ...hat mute melan- choly. The nose, which was aquiline and thin, recalled the royal origin of the high-born woman. The pure lips, finely cut, wore happy ... ...early days one of the most intrepid and most competent officers of the old navy. He had won the confidence of de Suffren in the Indian Ocean, and the ... ...ed by his actual suffering during the emigration. He served in the Russian navy until the day when the Emperor Alexander ordered him to be employed ag... ...ce. It was the duke who obtained for this glorious relic of the old Breton navy the pension which enabled him to live. On the death of Louis XVIII. he... ...ron would forget where he was when the talk fell on the misfortunes of the royal house. Sometimes the evening ended in a manner that was quite unexpec... ... She begged Calyste to em- ploy himself on the morrow in hiring a boat and sailors to take them across the little bay, undertaking herself to provide ... ...my mother’s family will lend us one. Ah, Beatrix, let us go! A boat, a few sailors, and we are there, before any one can know we have fled this world ...

... whose past was untraceable to any European eye, it is well known that the navy (especially, in time of war, the commercial navy) of Christendom is th... ...d butler within, whom Pharaoh ought to have hanged, but whom he clothed in royal apparel, and mounted upon a horse that carried him to a curule chair ... ... guard his official seat, a coal- black night, lamps blazing back upon his royal scarlet, and his blunderbuss correctly slung. T riton would not stay,... ...king’s statue:—Till very lately the etiquette of Europe was, that none but royal persons could have equestrian stat- ues. Lord Hopetoun, the reader wi... ...mong a very numerous class of the population, who detest the civic calm as sailors the natural calm—and make civic rights on which they cannot reason ... ... and the parts upon the whole; an ignorance of the same kind which has led sailors seriously (and not merely, as may some- times have happened, by way...