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III. Quaker and Pirate I had neither friend nor relation in England, though it was my native country; I had not a person to trust with what I had, or to counsel me to secure or save it; but falling into ill company, and trusting the keeper of a public-house in Rotherhithe with a great part of my money, all that great sum, which I got with so much pains and hazard, was gone in little more than two years' time spent in all kinds of folly and wickedness.
I'm going to pay you for what you do, and don't fancy I'm going an inch further than I feel inclined. I'm paying the piper, and I'm going to choose all the tunes." "Orl right," said Raffles, considerably taken aback by the ultimatum. "I'll not be friendlier than I can 'elp." "Don't," said Jack. Aided by Raffles of Rotherhithe, young Bourne went royally through half the rules of the school.
His own servants had gone on an hour before with three carts carrying the baggage; Sir Ralph accompanied them across London Bridge to Rotherhithe, where the barque was lying alongside a wharf. The horses were first taken on board, and placed in stalls on deck. These Van Voorden had had erected so that the horses should suffer no injury in case they encountered rough weather.
Let's have the thing. An inch lower down, and I'd have had that piece of barrel in my head or through it. It wants thinking over." "I suppose, sir, you're going to " "Oh, the cash you mean! Eh?" "Yes, that was my meaning." "Your cash will be all right, man. Come down for it on Friday can't you?" "How if I can't, young shaver?" said Raffles of Rotherhithe. "Then do without it!
He was red with anticipated shame, and his voice shook with indignation at the suggested martyrdom. Mrs. Peak dried a tear. 'You would be so alone in London, Godwin. 'Not a bit of it. Young Mr. Moxey will be a useful friend, I am convinced he will. To tell you the whole truth, I aim at getting a place at the works in Rotherhithe, where he no doubt has influence.
In two hours we arrived in Rotherhithe, and immediately went on board, and were to have sailed the next morning; but, as this was the king's proclamation-day, and consequently a holiday at the custom-house, the captain could not clear his vessel till the Thursday; for these holidays are as strictly observed as those in the popish calendar, and are almost as numerous.
It seemed to make no difference at all where he tried, the result was always the same. The little contretemps at Rotherhithe when he tried to board a tug was a sufficiently unpleasant experience for one day.
The men resented his superior manners and the fact that he was socially above them. The majority of the seamen were even more ruffianly than the specimens he had seen at the Waterman's Rest the scum of Wapping and Rotherhithe.
No, no; that was hardly permissible, Buckland. The young man had no difficulty in bowing to his father's reproof when the point at issue was one of gentlemanly behaviour. 'I admit it, he replied. 'I wish I had gone to Rotherhithe and made simple inquiries in my own name.
His wife, behaving "more like a heroine and philosopher, tho' at the same time the tenderest mother in the world," and his eldest daughter, followed him; and the invalid was swiftly driven the twelve miles to Rotherhithe. Here the task of embarking a man quite bereft of the use of his limbs had to be accomplished.
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