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It is a comfort to have a puff at tobacco once more, after three weeks' fasting." "For me," said Jack Brimblecombe, "Heaven forgive me! but when I get the magical leaf between my teeth again, I feel tempted to sit as still as a chimney, and smoke till my dying day, without stirring hand or foot."
"Perhaps I did speak a little hastily to her, considering she saved my life; but what a brimstone it is! Mary Ambree in a dark skin! Now then, lads! Get the Santa Fe gold up out of the canoes, and then we will put her head to the north-east, and away for Old England. Mr. Brimblecombe! don't say that Eastward-ho don't bring luck this time."
And rushing under the arras, through an open door behind, he returned, dragging out by the head Mr. John Brimblecombe. Who was Mr. John Brimblecombe? If you have forgotten him, you have done pretty nearly what every one else in the room had done.
The argument was unanswerable; and the next day they started without the Indians, while John Brimblecombe heaved many an honest sigh at leaving them to darkness, the devil, and the holy trumpet. And Ayacanora? When their departure was determined, she shut herself up in her hut, and appeared no more.
"John Brimblecombe," said Frank, in a sepulchral tone, "you cannot be ignorant, as a scholar and bachelor of Oxford, of that dread sacrament by which Catiline bound the soul of his fellow-conspirators, in order that both by the daring of the deed he might have proof of their sincerity, and by the horror thereof astringe their souls by adamantine fetters, and Novem-Stygian oaths, to that wherefrom hereafter the weakness of the flesh might shrink.
And writhing in his great horror, he called to Cary to kill him and put him out of his misery, and then wailed for his mother to come and help him, as if he had been a boy once more; while Brimblecombe and Cary, and the sailors who crowded round the cabin-door, wept as if they too had been boys once more. Soon his fit of frenzy passed off, and he sank back exhausted.
"I have it the holy trumpet!" There it was verily, that mysterious bone of contention; a handsome earthen tube some two feet long, neatly glazed, and painted with quaint grecques and figures of animals; a relic evidently of some civilization now extinct. Brimblecombe rubbed his little fat hands.
Cary went about beating up recruits; while John Brimblecombe preached a fierce crusade against the Spaniards, and Frank grew more and more proud of his brother. Old Salvation Yeo, who was now in Bideford, again brought twenty good men from Plymouth who had sailed with Drake.
Laughed till he cried again, and told me if I did not like it I might leave it; which is just what I intend to do. Only mind, if we go, we must needs take Jack Brimblecombe with us, or he will surely heave himself over Harty Point, and his ghost will haunt us to our dying day." "Jack shall go. None deserves it better."
"No, God!" he cried, "let me but once feel this in his accursed heart, and then strike me dead, if Thou wilt!" "The Lord have mercy on us," cried John Brimblecombe. "What have you said?" "What is that to you, sir? There, they are piping to dinner. Go down. I shall not come." And Jack went down, and talked in a half-terrified whisper of Amyas's ominous words.
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