[Cap’n Warren’s Wards by Joseph C. Lincoln]@TWC D-Link bookCap’n Warren’s Wards CHAPTER IX 37/39
I'll see that everything's attended to.
And, later on, if you and me can, by puttin' our heads together, help those folks to earnin' a better livin', why, we will, hey ?" The girl smiled up at him.
"I think," she said, "that you must be one who likes to hide his light under a bushel." "I guess likely a two-quart measure'd be plenty big enough to hide mine. There! there! We won't have any more misunderstandin's, will we? I'm a pretty green vegetable and about as out of place here as a lobster in a balloon, but, as I said to you and Steve once before, if you'll just remember I _am_ green and sort of rough, and maybe make allowances accordin', this cruise of ours may not be so unpleasant.
Now you run along and get ready for dinner, or the Commodore'll petrify from standin' so long behind your chair." She laughed, as she turned to go.
"I should hate to have him do that," she said.
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