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Terry and I went into the house, for the sun had left the high-walled garden, and besides, the talk we were going to have was more suitable to that practical region, my smoking-room-study-den, than to the romantic shade of a magnolia tree. We unpocketed our pipes, and smoked for several minutes before we spoke.
It was fishin' boat in Breetish pay. Dey find out who I be. Give leave to go shore again, and warn Breetish consul to look out, for Turk ver' savage when him hear of dis. Lord Exmouth, wid large fleet come straight to Algiers, for delivrin' all slaves, an' blow up de city." "Hurrah!" shouted Flaggan, in a subdued voice, while he unpocketed the cudgel and twirled it over his head.
I asked him if I might relieve him of tiller and sheet, and he, with an injunction to keep the sail full and far, unpocketed his breviary, and was instantly absorbed in its contents. Our tack was toward the eastern distance, and no glimpse of land or cloud made us aught but solitary travelers in illimitable space.
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