If I had the watch from eight till midnight, he would leave the deck about nine with the words, "Don't take any sail off her." Then, on the point of disappearing down the companion-way, he would add
curtly: "Don't carry anything away." I am glad to say that I never did; one night, however, I was caught, not quite prepared, by a sudden shift of wind.
Recollecting, however, that the valiant Amadis was not content to call himself
curtly Amadis and nothing more, but added the name of his kingdom and country to make it famous, and called himself Amadis of Gaul, he, like a good knight, resolved to add on the name of his, and to style himself Don Quixote of La Mancha, whereby, he considered, he described accurately his origin and country, and did honour to it in taking his surname from it.
"First show me your warrants," said Sir Richard
curtly.
"Haven't I told you, Jarvis, that I wish those cupboards kept locked?" he asked a little
curtly.
"Oh, he's a queer fellow," said Tom,
curtly, "and he's as sulky as can be with me, because I told him his father was a rogue.
He spoke
curtly, feeling the ache of despair as to his being able to carry out any purpose that Rosamond had set her mind against.
"If I was to say which of the two she was best adapted for, I'd say she'd make a better heathen," remarked Miranda
curtly.
The watchful guard, with his right hand at the stock of his raised blunderbuss, his left at the barrel, and his eye on the horseman, answered
curtly, "Sir."
Thus they applied very
curtly to the salutations, healths, and jokes of their companions.
"You'd be a blackguard if you did," Trent answered
curtly.
Aynesworth nodded a little
curtly. He was not very favorably impressed with his visitor.
'Well, if we've lost the road we must find it,' said Nikita
curtly, and getting out and stepping lightly on his pigeon-toed feet he started once more going about on the snow.
