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Ar'n't you ashamed of yourself?" All this, and infinitely more, was levelled against the miserable professor, who stood shivering with cold and fright; and turning his eyes first upon one, and then on another, as the exclamations circulated round the room, "I do assure you," at length he began. "No, no," cried one, "it is of no use explaining now!"
"Ay, it be well for you, lad, with all they big cannon guns in front o' your house ready to sink the Frenchy ships; but we ar'n't no guns here, on'y the one in the look-out, and she be rusted through." Oddly enough, when I reached home there was no one in the house.
"I'm skipper here, and I'm going to lead. Now, lads, are you all ready?" "Ay, ay," was the reply. "Then I ar'n't," said the gunner. "That crack pretty nigh split my shoulder. Now I am. Close up, and hit hard. We're all right, my lads; they're smugglers, and they hit us fust."
"But then, you know, he'll haunt us just as much as ever we shall see him here just the same." "A spirit is only a spirit," observed Smallbones; "he may live in the cabin all day and night afore I care; but, d'ye see, there's a great difference between the ghost of a dog and the dog himself." "Why, if the beast ar'n't natural, I can't see much odds," observed Spurey.
I replied, starting up, that my hands were free from the stain of Blood unrighteously spilt. "No offence, Brother Dangerous," continued the Captain. "In our line of life we ar'n't particular. It wouldn't take very dirty weather to make our Ensign look like a Black Flag.
"Vy now, Mr Simple," said the woman, "ar'n't you a nice lady's man, to go for to ax me to muddle my way through all the dead dogs, cabbage-stalks, and stinking hakes' heads, with my bran new shoes and clean stockings?" I looked at her, and sure enough she was, as they say in France, bien chaussée. "Come, Mr Simple, let him out to come for his clothes, and you'll see that he's back in a moment."
It's you as ought to have the money, seeing that it was only right when you found him, and have fed the Frenchy beggar ever since." "But who else is likely to know?" "Haw! Haw!" laughed the man, shaking with pure enjoyment at what seemed to him one of the greatest jokes in the world. "You have never seen him. You ar'n't got him chained up to your work-bench up in your room! Oh, no!
They belonged to that small class of aged seamen who, for their previous long and faithful services, are retained in the Navy more as pensioners upon its merited bounty than anything else. They are set to light and easy duties. "Ar'n't this the fore-top-man, Shenly?" asked the foremost, looking full at the frozen face before him.
"Have you not a herring there, you herring-gutted scoundrel? which, in defiance of all the rules of the service, you have brought on his Majesty's quarter-deck, you greedy rascal, and for which I intend " "It ar'n't my herring, sir, it be yours, for your breakfast; the only one that is left out of the half-dozen." This last remark appeared somewhat to pacify Mr Vanslyperken.
Doctor wants his boy too, teach him to make physic; and I ar'n't no spite again' young Duncan here, so I dunno as I partic'lar wants him throw'd up on the beach with his pockets full o' shrimps; so, No. Now be off. Go and look at the weir." "It's of no good," said Bigley, as we tramped down over the rough sand and pebbles. "When he says `no' he means it. We could have managed the boat all right.
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