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It was his malicious whim that we should talk English; a fortunate whim, as it turned out, because I knew no fo'c'sle German, but had a smattering of fo'c'sle English, gathered from Cutcliffe Hyne and Kipling. With these I extemporized a disreputable hybrid, mostly consisting of oaths and blasphemies, and so yarned of imaginary voyages.

It was useless for Deborah Pring, or even Dr. Cutcliffe Lane himself, to go on as they did about love at first sight, and the rising of the heart when, the ribs were broken, and a quantity of other stuff too foolish to repeat.

And now came the time for us to land. A lighter came alongside, with a little red-bearded man in command "Remind you of any one?" I said to Hawk. "Cap'n Kettle!" "Yes!" He was exactly like Cutcliffe Hyne's famous "Kettle," except that he smoked a pipe. We huddled into the lighter, and hauled our stores down below.

Tom Jones was and is a popular book. Nevertheless he would have many readers among a large minority, just as Mr. Arnold Bennett has to-day readers who can appreciate a story which is direct, vivid, and mainly external in treatment. But the largest public is for writers like Mr. Cutcliffe Hyne or Mr. William Le Queux. These more nearly represent the popular ideal in a "novel of incident."

If you bring not the poor wounded gentleman in, you shall never come through this door yourself." "Ha, old hunks, I told thee so!" The young man who spoke raised his hat to me, and I saw that it had a scarlet plume, such as Marwood de Wichehalse gloried in. "In with thee, and stretch him that he may die straight. I am off to Southmolton for Cutcliffe Lane, who can make a furze-fagot bloom again.