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Updated: May 11, 2025
"One of these days," she'd say, "the wind'll take and change sudden while you're doing it; and there you'll be fixed and looking fifty ways for Sunday until we meet in the land of marrow and fatness." And here in Ardevora, of all places! where the womenkind be that masterful already, a man must get into his sea-boots before he can call his soul his own.
"Never you mind about understanding," said Kitty. "But sit you down and keep your eye on the Parson. See the colour on him that's anger, my dear! And see his jaw, full of blessed stubbornness! Nine good votes he has, and old Grandison a couple beside: and every one of 'em as good as cast for you, if you'll sit it out. Sit quiet for two minutes now, and to-morrow you shall sit for Ardevora."
They found half a dozen ships' companies already there, and enjoying themselves on this diet; the crew of the Minerva frigate, run ashore off Cherbourg; the crew of the Hussar, wrecked outside Brest; and so queerly things fall out in this world among them a parcel of poor fellows from Ardevora, taken on board the privateer Recovery of this port.
Back in Ardevora I can make between seventy and eighty pounds a year at that game easy." Bosistow scratched his head. "You've been making the most of your time. Now I've been busy in my way, too, but seemin' to me the only trade I've learned is prison-breakin'. Not much to keep a wife on, as you say. Still, a bargain's a bargain." "Oh, sutt'nly," says Abe; "that is if your conscience allows it."
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