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"I hope, gentleman," said Brogten, bluntly, "that you're not going to believe that blackguard's word against ours." "And impugned by three gentlemen," said Bruce, who felt how thoroughly he was in disgrace. "Do you mean to deny, Bruce, that you swore at the man first, and then cut his ropes, when he was already stopping his barge?" asked Lillyston.
I think I know every turn in that blackguard's mind." "Have you been speaking to Florian about him, Captain Clayton?" "Not a word." "Nor has his brother?" "I think not." "What am I to do about the poor boy?" said the anxious father. "Because of his fear about this very man?" "He is only a boy, you know." "Of course he is only a boy. You've no right to expect from him the pluck of a man.
"Because the little blackguard's grog would be stopped on board the yacht if he did." Flucker had not been gone many minutes before loud cheering was heard, and Christie Johnstone appeared convoyed by a large detachment of the Old Town; she had tried to slip away, but they would not let her. They convoyed her in triumph till they saw the New Town people, and then they turned and left her.
Five minutes later the boat, which was crowded with natives, went about like a top, and then Tully as fine a sailor man as ever put hand to a rope brought her alongside in such a manner that I could not but admire and envy the little blackguard's skill. The boat itself was kept in fine order, and was painted like all the king's miniature fleet white outside, and bright salmon inside.
Only O'Moy, watching her and reading in her every word and glance and gesture the signs of her falsehood, knew the hideous thing she strove to hide, even, it seemed, at the cost of her lover's life. To his lacerated soul her torture was a balm. Gloating, he watched her, then, and watched her lover, marvelling at the blackguard's complete self-mastery and impassivity even now.
Instead, I was taught lying, dishonorable submission to tyranny, dirty stories, a blasphemous habit of treating love and maternity as obscene jokes, hopelessness, evasion, derision, cowardice, and all the blackguard's shifts by which the coward intimidates other cowards.
"Not a bit of it," remarked Amos Parr, who was squatted on the deck busily engaged in constructing a rope mat, while several of the men sat round him engaged in mending sails, or stitching canvas slippers, etcetera. "Not a bit of it, Grim; Dumps is too honest by half to do sich a thing. 'Twas Poker as did it, I can see by the roll of his eye below the skin. The blackguard's only shammin' sleep."
"Not a bit of it," remarked Amos Parr, who was squatted on the deck busily engaged in constructing a rope mat, while several of the men sat round him engaged in mending sails, or stitching canvas slippers, etc. "not a bit of it, Grim; Dumps is too honest by half to do sich a thing. 'Twas Poker as did it, I can see by the roll of his eye below the skin. The blackguard's only shammin' sleep."
Nellie jest stood there white, like a image, an' never said one word; an' I seed the red marks o' the blackguard's fingers come out acrost her cheek. Next minit yaller face jumped fur the door, an' me arter him, you kin bet yer life! He was a-makin' tracks purty lively, but I kin run a leetle myself, an' I was onter him 'gin Sandy an' the rest was outer the door. An' didn't I whale him, now?
"Yes, and a devil with his fist," growled a sullen-looking fellow. "Just so," assented Jim, "when a blackguard's round to feel it." "Well, Given, do you like the darkies well enough to take off your cap to them?" queried a sergeant standing near. "What are you driving at now, hey?" "O, not much; but you'll have to play second fiddle to them to-night.
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