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And when he went back to Dare it was a wet day also; but he was very cheerful; and he had a friendly word for all whom he met; and he told the mother and Janet that he had got home at last, and meant to go no more a-roving.
"What was her name? and I'll send her my love and duty, for, man, between us, I was fond of her,... There was a song she had: The Rover went a-roving far upon the foreign seas, Oh, hail to thee, my dear, and fare-ye-weel. Only it was in the Gaelic she sung it" His voice, that was very weak and thin now, cracked, and no sound came though his lips moved. Miss Mary took a cup and wet his lips.
The boats lie yonder! Well?" "Where be you heading of now, Smiler? Where's the wind? Talk plain!" "Why look'ee all, if Penfeather wants men, as wants 'em he doth, what's to stay or let us from rowing out to Penfeather soft and quiet and 'listing ourselves along of Penfeather, and watch our chance t' heave Penfeather overboard and go a-roving on our own account? Well?"
I had to confess to having gone a-roving with a pair of drovers and their cattle, to having used a false name, to having murdered or half-murdered a fellow-creature in a scuffle on the moors, and to having suffered a couple of quite innocent men to lie some time in prison on a charge from which I could have immediately freed them.
Now, worthy doctor mine, you have heard what it is we call going a-roving; but how strictly this requireth to be kept secret you can see for yourself, and therefore I say no more to you nor pray you thereof.
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