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SO the Wainora went south again over the calm sea, and Erne and I sat in the veranda, waiting for her return.
"In any other quarter of the world," said Captain Arkwright to me in the billiard-room the night before she sailed, "we should have had a gale of wind after all this brooding weather, and this low mercury. I made sure of it last trip; but since you have told me of this earthquake, which you and Trevittick felt beyond the hill, I am getting less cautious. That is what is the matter; that is what is lowering the barometer so, and making this God--forsaken weather. It was just the same at Pernambuco" (he said Pernemooker) "five years ago, and at Valparaiso" (he said Walloparaiser) "when I was a boy, -- the time when I was cook's mate's master's mate in that--never you mind, " he went on, a little sulkily, though I had not spoken, "that ain't no odds to you. You was only a smith yourself once, you know. And we must all on us have a beginning, of some sort or another. Even dukes and marquises, as I understand, has to serve their time as earls and barons, and learn their duty, before the Queen will rate them as A. B. By-the-by, did your night-shift in the mine feel it?"