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"Haven't done as well for a month, sir; but what's it saying, two hungry meals make the third a glutton." "How are you doing, Tom?" "No time to get a right mouthful for myself Cæsar; kept so busy with the drink." "Aw, there'll be some with their top works hampered soon." "Got plenty, Jonaique?" "Plenty, sir, plenty. Enough down here to victual a menagerie.
"A good few indeed, my man," replied the captain. "Yes, you may make away with a deal of money and be neither drunkard nor glutton." "They say, too, that Clym Yeobright is become a real perusing man, with the strangest notions about things. There, that's because he went to school early, such as the school was." "Strange notions, has he?" said the old man.
So it is for the interest of the drunkard to quit his cups; for the glutton to curb his appetite; for the debauchee to bridle his lust; for the sluggard to be up betimes; for the spendthrift to be economical, and for all sinners to stop sinning. Even if it were for the interest of masters to treat their slaves well, he must be a novice who thinks that a proof that the slaves are well treated.
"I'd much sooner be smoking a quiet pipe in my own quarters but I see we 'ave the Old Brigade on our 'ands this afternoon. If I only 'ad you regular, Muster Corkran," said he, dressing the line. "You've had me for nearly six weeks, you old glutton. Number off from the right!" "Not quite so previous, please. I'm taking this drill. Left, half turn! Slow march."
In a minute or so he came back with a bark basket quite shallow, but about fourteen inches square, an' full of all kinds of eggs for the wild-birds was breedin' at the time. `What's that for? says we. `For Glutton, when he's ready for 'em, says he. `There's six dozen here, an' if that don't do it, I've got another basket ready outside. With that he sets the basket down in front o' the Injin, who just gave a glance at it over a goose drumstick he was tearin' away at.
"Oh, they were quick enough to see that this was no ordinary dispensation of law," laughed Marriott. "The dogs are sleepless and trembling to-night, I warrant." "Aye, it is certainly the King's turn now, and I would he were making better use of his opportunity." "What a glutton you are, Rosmore. There are over three hundred prisoners in Dorchester alone."
Let us leave the glutton with his quarry. The brief morning which I spent with him in his native place did not enable me to watch him at his hunting, on the sands of the beach; but the facts gathered in captivity are enough to tell us all about it. They show us in the Scarites a bold hero who is not to be intimidated by the biggest or strongest adversary.
And there is a big bumble-bee who tries to force himself into the flower, brutally; but his mouth cannot reach the nectar, and the poor glutton strives and strives in vain. He has to give up the attempt, and comes out of the flower all smeared over with pollen.
With a reputation to make with his new owners, and two and a-half per cent, commission on all profits, Kettle had developed into a regular glutton for cargo; and the knowledge of men and places which he had so laboriously acquired in former days served him finely. Three times he got doles of cargo at good stiff freights at points where few other men would have dreamed of looking.
I said, 'I want to see Emily. 'Emily doesn't like you. 'I don't care whether she likes me or not; I want to see her. That's the way we snap at each other, and that's how I always carry my point. Here I am, till my duenna finishes her business and fetches me. What a prospect for You! Have you got any cold meat in the house? I'm not a glutton, like Cecilia but I'm afraid I shall want some lunch."
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