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All the specimens of insular wealth were put on board the schooner and secreted; for Fullalove's first move was to get a lease of the island from the Chilian government, and it was no part of his plan to trumpet the article he was going to buy. After a moment's hesitation, he declined to take the seven pounds of silver.
The next observation that trickled out of Fullalove's tube was this: "I judge there are too few hands on deck, and too many white eyeballs glittering at the portholes." "Confound it," muttered Bayliss, uneasily; "how can you see that?" Fullalove replied only by quietly handing his glass to Dodd. The captain thus appealed to, glued his eye to the tube.
Dodd hastily bolted the cabin-door, and looked with trembling lip and piteous earnestness in Kenealy's face and Fullalove's. They were mute with surprise at a gaze so eloquent and yet mysterious. He manned himself, and opened his mind to them with deep emotion, yet not without a certain simple dignity.
Black," said she, turning with a voice of honey to Vespasian, but aiming obliquely at Fullalove's heart, "would you oblige me by kicking that dog a little: he is always smelling what does not belong to him why, it is blood; oh!" and she turned pale in a moment. Sharpe thought some excuse necessary. "You see, ma'am, we haven't had time to clean the decks since."
The next observation that trickled out of Fullalove's tube was this: "I judge there are too few hands on deck, and too many white eyeballs glittering at the portholes." "Confound it!" muttered Bayliss, uneasily; "how can you see that?" Fullalove replied only by quietly handing his glass to Dodd. The captain, thus appealed to, glued his eye to the tube.
Fullalove's word came too true: it was the swordfish and the whale: it was a fight of hammer and anvil; one hit, the other made a noise. Cautious and cruel, the pirate hung on the poor hulking creature's quarters and raked her at point blank distance. He made her pass a bitter time. And her captain!
The great and wise Charles Reade tells how his hero, who had an island, a treasure ship, and a few other trifles of the sort to dispose of, insisted upon Captain Fullalove's throwing away the stick he was whittling, as giving the captain an unfair advantage.
"What I do ask you is to land me at Valparaiso. There I'll find a purchaser, and will pay you handsomely for your kindness." "That is fair," said Fullalove, dryly. "What will you pay me?" "I'll show you," said Robert. He took out of his, pocket the smaller conglomeration of Spanish coin, and put it into Fullalove's hand. "That," said he, "is silver coin I dug out of the galleon."
Fullalove's worth came too true: it was the swordfish and the whale: it was a fight of hammer and anvil; one hit, the other made a noise. Cautious and cruel, the pirate hung on the poor hulking creature's quarters and raked her at point-blank distance. He made her pass a bitter time. And her captain!
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