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"Ay, ay," the little man continued, "and in a day or two James Moore'll ha' anither tale to tell ye a better tale, ye'll think it mair laffable. And yet ay -no -I'll no believe it! I niver loved James Moore, but I think, as Mr. Hornbut aince said, he'd rather die than lie. Owd Bob o' Kenmuir!" he continued in a whisper. "Up till the end I canna shake him aff.
Now there's no smoke without fire, and I'm thinking it's likely enough he were one of them fellows as is always after some lass or another, and, as often as not, two or three at a time. Now look at Philip, what a different one he is! He's niver thought on a woman but our Sylvie, I'll be bound. I wish he wern't so old-fashioned and faint-hearted.
And I dunnot think as he'd ha' gone and married another woman so soon, if he'd been i' Kinraid's place. 'An' yo've niver heared on Philip sin' he left? asked Kester, after a while. 'Niver; nought but what she told me. And she said that t' captain made inquiry for him right and left, as soon after that happened as might be, and could hear niver a word about him.
'I cannot; yo' know nothing about it, Hester. 'Tell me, then, pleaded Hester. 'No! said Sylvia, after a moment's hesitation; 'I'd do a deal for yo', I would, but I daren't forgive Philip, even if I could; I took a great oath again' him. Ay, yo' may look shocked at me, but it's him as yo' ought for to be shocked at if yo' knew all. I said I'd niver forgive him; I shall keep to my word.
Shadd has her own opinion, like iv'ry woman," "'Tis wid yours this time, for a mericle," sez Mother Shadd. "Thin why in the name av fortune did I niver see her before?" sez I. "Bekaze you've been thrapesin' round wid the married women these three years past. She was a bit av a child till last year, an' she shot up wid the spring," sez ould Mother Shadd.
"Oh, Terence, me darlin' son, here ye are; an' is it yersilf lookin' purtier a long way than the day ye left me; an' niver so much as a scratch on yer face for all the wars ye've bin in bad luck to thim!" Need we say that this was Mrs Flynn?
But ye niver did have no feelin's, ye bloomin' heathen. "''Pon me sowl, what cud I do else? "'O' course, 'tain't likely a rough feller like you could do any better, but whin any wimmen folks come aboard agin, come to a man as is used to thim. A man as can talk an' act in a way they likes. A man wid some ways to him. A man Here he stooped an' picked up th' button th' old gal had dropped.
"'I'll tell ye what, cries Martin; 'we'll cut it up, and take the meat into camp an' cook it without sayin' a word. "'Done, says I, 'that's it; for ye must know the poor critter wos no judge o' meat. He couldn't tell one kind from another, an' he niver axed questions. In fact he niver a'most spoke to us all the trip.
"There's two ways of lookin' at these things." "'Strewth! I niver thought o' that," said Jonah, scratching his ear. "No, but other people do, worse luck," said Mrs Yabsley. Jonah stared at the child in silence. Mrs Yabsley turned and poked the fire under the copper boiler. Suddenly Jonah lifted his head and cried: "I say, missis, I can see a hole in a ladder plain enough!
The man was very tall and broad-shouldered, and carried himself with a free-and-easy swagger, as he rose and approached the group of boys. "He'll niver bate ye, Martin, avic, as long as there's two timbers of ye houldin' togither."
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