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The question of loyalty raised in the letter is a nice one. But Posh and his kind would only answer it in one way. They would regard it as treachery to their order to betray each other to a "gennleman," however kind the "gennleman," may have been. On April 4th FitzGerald wrote to Posh from Woodbridge: "I may be at Lowestoft some time next week.
They remembered him, I say, as a man whose heart was in the right place, as a man who never turned a deaf ear to a tale of trouble. "Ah!" said one of them. "He was a good gennleman, was old Fitz." They thought of him as a "mate" as one who knew the sea and her moods, and would put up with her vagaries even as they must do. Posh!
And, if he was, the man referred to in his story, the man who robbed him to all intents and purposes, is hereby invited to do something to purge his offence by coming forward and "behaving like a gennleman" upon which I will answer for it that all will be forgiven and forgotten by Posh. "Ye see, master," said Posh, "that was a Mr.
My daughter is going to be married to the squire here. I've heard the news I saw it in a paper! 'It is premature 'I know it is true; and I'm her father, and I shall give her away, or there'll be a hell of a row, I can assure ye! Is that where the gennleman lives? Joshua Halborough writhed in impotent despair.
"Ah yo' de gennleman known ter dis hyah sinful genehation by de style an' de entitlemint o' Docto' Hahtley Kirby?" he asts the doctor very ceremonious and grand. The doctor give him a look that wasn't very encouraging, but he nodded to him. "Will yo' dismiss yo' sehvant in ordeh dat we kin hol' convehse an' communion in de midst er privacy?"
As for the father and mother, well, they smoothed down the "gennleman" and sympathised with their son according to their kind and to mother nature. The Direction to FitzGerald's Heirs, which he refers to, is still in existence, and reads as follows: "LOWESTOFT, January 20th, 1870.
He took a score or so away wi'm, and he took my phootoo and I told him a sight o' things, thinkin' he was a gennleman. Well, he axed me round to Marine Parade, where he was a stayin' with his lady, and he give me one drink o' whisky. And that's all I see of him. He was off with the letters and all, and never gave me a farden for what he had or what he l'arnt off o' me.
But he was happy enough in the consciousness that he was doing Posh a good turn. Whether or not Posh had a greater share of the earnings of the boat than he was entitled to I cannot say. Certainly he began to thrive exceedingly about this time, and, as an old longshoreman seven years Posh's senior, said to me the other day, "He might ha' been a gennleman!
"I heard him, m'dear girl," he answered with a faint smile. "Not deaf you know. Yes. Head aches a good deal. But I thing this gennleman mistakes " "He says you are to keep awake. You mustn't go to sleep again, and you are not to close your eyes." "All ri' Pol'n. Keep'm open," and he proceeded forthwith to shut them with an air of infinite peacefulness.
Fellmer had not yet positively declared himself, his mother was hardly won round; a scene with their father in the parish would demolish as fair a palace of hopes as was ever builded. The millwright rose. 'If that's where the squire lives I'm going to call. Just arrived from Canady with her fortune ha, ha! I wish no harm to the gennleman, and the gennleman will wish no harm to me.
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