Captain
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As soon as they saw me abandoned by the vicar, head of the village _Congregation_, and not supported by the retired captain, head of the Liberals, they all fell upon me, even the mason who had been living upon me for a year, even the wheelwright, who tried to get away with cheating me when he mended my ploughs.
He was fortunately an old
Captain
of the Army of Italy, of 1796, when he had served with Manuel.
You know how much esteem Mrs. Grubach has for me, she's the one who will make all the decisions in this, especially as the
captain
is her nephew, but she believes everything I say without question.
He thought she would look up at him, but without changing her manner she said,"Forgive me, but it was the suddenness of the knocking that startled me so much, not so much what the consequences of the
captain
being here might be.
Look," she pointed to the
captain'
s door, from under which there was a light shining, "he's put a light on and he's laughing at us.""Alright, I'm coming," said K., moved forward, took hold of her, kissed her on the mouth and then over her whole face like a thirsty animal lapping with its tongue when it eventually finds water.
He did not look up until there was a noise from the
captain'
s room.
He still felt unable to ask for the investigating committee, and so he invented a joiner called Lanz - that name occurred to him because the captain, Mrs. Grubach's nephew, was called Lanz - so that he could ask at every flat whether Lanz the joiner lived there and thus obtain a chance to look into the rooms.
"Well, yes, that's how it is," said K., and as Mrs. Grubach's behaviour indicated that the
captain
had said nothing he dared to add, "Do you really think, then, that I'd want to make an enemy of you for the sake of a girl we hardly know?""Yes, you're quite right, Mr. K.," said Mrs. Grubach, and then, to her misfortune, as soon as she felt just a little freer to speak, she added something rather inept.
"No," said Mrs. Grubach, "in itself it's very good to have her there, it makes another room free for me and I can let my nephew, the captain, occupy it.
The courtesy he showed towards Miss Montag made a striking contrast with the way she had been treated by K. Nonetheless, Miss Montag did not seem to be cross with K. as it even seemed to him that she wanted to introduce the
captain.
He wanted to go straight to his room, but a little laugh from Miss Montag that he heard from the dining room behind him brought him to the idea that he might prepare a surprise for the two of them, the
captain
and Miss Montag.
But that made it all the more embarrassing for him when, as he was closing the door again, he saw Miss Montag and the
captain
talking in the open doorway of the dining room.
For the next four days he lived a simple and blameless life on thin
captain'
s biscuits (I mean that the biscuits were thin, not the captain) and soda-water; but, towards Saturday, he got uppish, and went in for weak tea and dry toast, and on Monday he was gorging himself on chicken broth.
Then he told us anecdotes of how he had gone across the Channel when it was so rough that the passengers had to be tied into their berths, and he and the
captain
were the only two living souls on board who were not ill.
"Come, come, my lad!" said our
captain
sharply, "don't let us have any nonsense.
The boy did not reenter the room; and the black himself, after some time, returned, just as the young British
captain
was exclaiming,-"But who is this Mr. Harper?
"But do you think he suspects me?" asked the captain, with anxiety, after pausing to listen to Caesar's opinion of the Skinners.
cried the
captain
gayly; "did Peyton strive to make you hate your king, more than he does himself?"
The
captain
was impatiently wishing Harper in any other place than the one foe occupied with such apparent composure, while Miss Peyton completed the disposal of her breakfast equipage, with the mild complacency of her nature, aided a little by an inward satisfaction at possessing so large a portion of the trader's lace; Sarah was busily occupied in arranging her purchases, and Frances was kindly assisting in the occupation, disregarding her own neglected bargains, when the stranger suddenly broke the silence by saying,-"If any apprehensions of me induce
Captain
Wharton to maintain his disguise, I wish him to be undeceived; had I motives for betraying him, they could not operate under present circumstances."
Mr. Wharton was stupefied; but the captain, hesitating a moment from astonishment, sprang into the middle of the room, and exclaimed, as he tore off the instruments of his disguise,-"I believe you from my soul, and this tiresome imposition shall continue no longer.
Some of the cast-off clothes of the captain, which had been removed with the goods from the city, were produced; and young Wharton, released from the uneasiness of his disguise, began at last to enjoy a visit which had been undertaken at so much personal risk to himself.
"Oh!" cried the captain, gayly, "he yet continues there, as handsome and as gallant as ever."
"Let me tell you," replied the captain, gravely, "a lieutenant colonelcy in the Guards is a very pretty thing."
"It surprises me," continued the captain, "that Peyton, when he procured the release of my father, did not endeavor to detain my sister in the rebel camp."
"And one you ladies would sometimes be glad to exercise," cried the
captain.
cried the captain, gayly.
"And, from my conduct, you might add cruel," said the captain, seating himself on the other side of his sister.
"Women are but mirrors, which reflect the images before them," cried the captain, good-naturedly.
"Look!" repeated the captain, "there is nothing but spots to be seen."
"No!" said the captain, laconically, and looking at his lovely burdens with great affection.
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