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Had the window panes been washed there was little chance of the sunshine penetrating far save by the wide open door. On either hand as one entered were the rows of hanging oilskins, storm boots, miscellaneous clothing and ship chandlery that made up only a part of Cap'n Abe's stock.
He was in his oilskins, for there was some sea shipped for'ard, and he greeted me with a savage ferocity which was meant to be pleasant. "Keeping a watch on your own hook, my fine gentleman, eh?" said he; "and after my orders for you to be abed that's pretty discipline, I reckon." I made no sort of answer, but turned my back on him, and continued to watch the twinkling lights of Deal.
Woollen underclothing was unknown, and oilskins were things none could afford; a pair of thick leather trousers were worn with stockings and wooden shoes. Often one fell in and worked on in wet clothes, which were frozen so stiff that it was impossible to draw them off.
By his side he was conscious of the presence of a thick-set man in a fisherman's costume of brown oilskins and a southwester pulled down as though to hide his features, obviously the man who had dealt him the blow. Then he heard a very soft, quiet voice behind him. "He will do now. Come." The man by his side grunted. "I am going to make sure of him," he said thickly.
Things must sure be awful bad with th' doctor." The fisherman brandished his splitting knife as he spoke, and, with his torn oilskins dripping with blood and slime he was a terrible-looking figure, until his arms fell to his side and he stood there, an abject picture of dejection. Then I heard a woman's voice.
I took it from the pocket of my flannel shirt, under my oilskins, and held it out to her. "I have not got very far," I said humbly. "It's not inspiring reading. I've got the wine glasses straightened out, but it seems a lot of fuss about nothing. Wine is wine, isn't it? What difference, after all, does a hollow stem or green glass make " The rain was beating down on us.
He it was, I know, that carried some of Johnson's hasty talk to Wolf Larsen. Johnson, it seems, bought a suit of oilskins from the slop-chest and found them to be of greatly inferior quality. Nor was he slow in advertising the fact.
But Ransay is not one of the suspected islands, and your friend in oilskins doesn't fit into anything I happen to have heard from other sources." "Look here," I said, "what's the good of being cousins if we aren't candid? Do you or don't you believe me?" John Whiteclett looked at me very steadily and spoke in his most deliberate accents. "I believe that you believe every word of it.
The whole main deck, fore and aft, was as clean stripped as could be, and the hatches alone were saving us from filling and going under. It was a dismal sight, and the men who stood huddled on the forecastle and poop looked, in their yellow oilskins, like so many yellow ghosts.
"You see that, Mills? You see that, Jimmy?" he pointed out. "Six and three-quarter pounds! I was right almost to an ounce. He's a fine fellow!" "A very extraordinary fish, sir," the butler observed. "Will you allow me to take your oilskins? Dinner was served nearly an hour ago." Sir Henry slipped off his dripping overalls and handed them over. "That's all right," he replied. "Listen.
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