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These men were Captain Rushton and four sailors of the ship Norman, whose burning has already been described. One of the sailors, Bunsby, was better educated and more intelligent than the rest, and the captain spoke to him as a friend and an equal, for all the distinctions of rank were broken down by the immediate prospect of a terrible death.
He, too, plunged into the sea, and Bunsby and the captain were left alone. "You won't desert me, Bunsby?" said the captain. "No, captain. I haven't swallowed seawater like those poor fellows. I can stand it better." "There is no hope of life," said the captain, quietly; "but I don't like to go unbidden into my Maker's presence." "Nor I. I'll stand by you, captain"
The Captain therefore hemmed to clear his throat, and read the letter aloud. "My dear Ned Cuttle. When I left home for the West Indies" Here the Captain stopped, and looked hard at Bunsby, who looked fixedly at the coast of Greenland.
It appeared, from Captain Cuttle's explanation, that the great Bunsby, like himself, was cruelly treated by his landlady, and that when her usage of him for the time being was so hard that he could bear it no longer, he set this gulf between them as a last resource. 'Clara a-hoy! cried the Captain, putting a hand to each side of his mouth.
He has a good reputation for integrity." "Your wife knew you had left the money in his hands?" "No; I meant it as a surprise to her." "It is a pity you did not leave that paper in her hands." "What do you mean, Bunsby?" asked the captain, nervously. "You don't think this man will betray his trust?" "I can't say, captain, for I don't know the man; but I don't like to trust any man too far."
But as the mahogany philosopher gave no evidence of being sentient of anything but warmth and tobacco, except once, when taking his pipe from his lips to make room for his glass, he incidentally remarked with exceeding gruffness, that his name was Jack Bunsby a declaration that presented but small opening for conversation the Captain bespeaking his attention in a short complimentary exordium, narrated the whole history of Uncle Sol's departure, with the change it had produced in his own life and fortunes; and concluded by placing the packet on the table.
While she stood wondering how many times the white-haired young lawyer would tell her it was so nice to have her back, she felt a slight pressure on her arm and turned to face Bart. "You are wanted, please, Miss Lucy; may I offer you my arm? Excuse me, Bunsby I'll give her to you again in a minute." Lucy slipped her arm into Bart's, and asked simply, "What for?" "To finish our talk, of course.
Bunsby, descrying no objection, on the coast of Greenland or elsewhere, to this proposal, it was carried into execution; and that great man, bringing his eye into the present for a moment, affixed his sign-manual to the cover, totally abstaining, with characteristic modesty, from the use of capital letters.
Phileas Fogg, after paying the stipulated price of his passage to John Bunsby, and rewarding that worthy with the additional sum of five hundred and fifty pounds, boarded the steamer with Aouda and Fix; and they started at once for Nagasaki and Yokohama. They reached their destination on the morning of the 14th of November.
'Bunsby, said the Captain, striking home at once, 'here you are; a man of mind, and a man as can give an opinion. Here's a young lady as wants to take that opinion, in regard of my friend Wal'r; likewise my t'other friend, Sol Gills, which is a character for you to come within hail of, being a man of science, which is the mother of invention, and knows no law.
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