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"This lady," I said, taking her hand as she stood beside me, "is my true and lawful wife, your mistress, to be honored and obeyed as such. Who fails in reverence to her I hold as mutinous to myself, and will deal with him accordingly. She gives you to-morrow for holiday, with double rations, and to each a measure of rum. Now thank her properly."
What he has done for me is out of friendship, as he says, and he wouldn't touch a farthing save what I owe him." "Cursed if he isn't a rum sea-captain," he answered, shrugging his shoulders; "cursed if I ever ran foul of one yet who would refuse a couple of hundred and call quits. What's he to do? Is he to live like a Lord of the Treasury upon a master's savings?"
Gazing for the last time upon the clay-cold features of her departed husband, this young widow beautiful even in her grief; so ethereal to look upon, and yet so firm! looking for the last time upon the dear familiar face, now cold and still in death oh, looking for the last, last time she rapidly put on her bonnet, and thus addressed the sobbing gentlemen who were to act as pall-bearers: "You pall-bearers, just go into the buttery and get some rum, and we'll start this man right along!"
If you would drive him to his house and leave him there, you would do us both a very great kindness, and we can easily account to our hosts for his absence. "I thought this rather a rum start, but I agreed, and no sooner had I said the word than the old one she pulls open the door, and she and the other, without waiting for me to bear a hand, bundled him in between them. "'Where to? I asked.
My dream still occasioned in me a great consternation; and, fearing that the ague might return the succeeding day, I concluded it time to get something to comfort me. I filled a case bottle with water, and set it within reach of my bed; and, to make it more nourishing and less chilly, I put some rum in it. The next thing I did was to broil me a piece of goat's flesh, of which I ate but little.
He swore and cursed most terribly at his ill luck, as he chose to call it; and, to console himself, opened his spirit case and drank tumbler after tumbler of rum and water.
"Well, he is a rum little youngster!" he exclaimed, taking me up in his open palms. "He is like Polly that he is!" he added, as he gazed at me affectionately, the feelings of a father for the first time welling up in his bosom. "Yes, he is a sweet little cherub! Shouldn't wonder but he is like them as lives up aloft there to watch over us poor chaps at sea. Ay, that he must be.
Up strolled Jock hands deep in his pockets. "Here, Sergeant-major this man hasn't the foggiest notion how to use a pick. I've just been showing him." "I've been watching ye, sir. I'm thinking it wad need tae be war time for you to earn ten shillings a day in the pits." "How many men in this bay for rum, Sergeant Lumsden?" "Four men and myself, sir. That will be nine."
At this I set down the jug and taking out my purse, extracted a guinea. "Landlord," said I, tossing the coin upon the table, "a bottle of your best rum for the officers a bowl of punch would do none of us any harm, I think." "Lor'!" exclaimed the landlady, sitting down heavily. "By goles!" quoth the landlord, reaching for the guinea.
She's rum to look at, certainly, but that don't matter. Dammy, I consider myself a literary man, and I wish to know all the clever fellows." So Mr. Popjoy and Mr. Shandon had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with one another; and now the doors of the adjoining dining-room being flung open, the party entered and took their seats at table. Pen found himself next to Bunion on one side, and to Mr.
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