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Pshaw, boy! that's not life." "Then, what is life?" inquired I. "What is life? Why, to sail in a clipper with a jolly crew and a roving commission; take your prizes, share and share alike, of gold-dust and doubloons." "But what sort of vessel must that be, Spicer?" "What sort? why a letter of marque a privateer a cruise on the Spanish Main that's life.
I've near froze into a plaster figure o' Virtue, what with talkin' like a Sunday-school class, and sparkin' one old maid, and makin' out like I wouldn't melt butter with the other. So H. H. will ship along of you, mates, and we'll off to the China coast somewheres where the spendin' is good and the police not too nosy, and try how far a trunkful of doubloons will go!"
"Then you never gave her twenty-five thousand doubloons?" "Sire, I gave her double that sum, but only on the day before yesterday. Your majesty has absolute power, but if she had not received her dismissal I should never have gone to her house, nor should I have given her the smallest present."
Did the gold carry with it some deadly influence? One plays, as it were, with this idea, imagining the so melancholy and bloody history of these old doubloons. How, in the first place, had he found them? Through chance by following some authentic clue? And then, in the moment of success, he disappears pouf!"
"Why, now I think of it, that is the very officer whom you visited long ago by the secret passage in the prison." "Very true." "And now you would kill him?" "Yes." "And for what?" "That matters not. You will be paid for your business, and must ask no questions." "O, very well; business is business." "You see this purse?" "Yes." "It contains fifty doubloons.
To these poor invalids our embryo doctor was so useful, that after a few days dosing with proper medicine, their health and spirits began to improve rapidly, and their gratitude was such that they heaped upon him every delicacy that the place afforded, such as bananas, plantains, oranges, lemons, pumpkins, melons, sweet potatoes, beef, goat's flesh, venison, and pork, besides filling his pockets with doubloons!
There it is, a bag of doubloons, say all looking just alike, with the head of a king, a Don Somebody, and the date, and the Latin and Greek now who can say that 'this is my doubloon; I lost it at such a time it was taken from me by such a pirate, in such sea; and I was whipped till I told the thieves where I had hid the gold? No, no, Mary; depend on 't, no action of 'plevy would lie ag'in a single one of all them pieces.
"To tell the truth, I felt a little sheepish about mentioning the doubloons to him, for I rather expected him to laugh. But he took it in dead earnest, and honestly thinks we have a chance." "Is he perfectly willing, as far as his interest in the schooner goes, that she shall be used for this purpose?" Drew queried. "Perfectly. In fact, he was enthusiastic about it.
My name is written on clean paper now, blessed be the name of the Queen! 'Tut, tut, Buonesperado, laughed he, 'you shall forget that Tyburn is not a fable if you care to have doubloons reminted at the Queen's mint. It is meet Spanish Philip's head be molted to oblivion, and Elizabeth's raised, so that good silver be purged of Popish alloy. But that I had sworn by the little finger of St.
Yes, I remember that he spoke of them guineas three thousand and odd, and nearly as many doubloons!" "Was Daggett, then, a pirate, sir? for they who make free with the goods of others on the high seas are neither more nor less than pirates." "No; not he, himself. He got this secret from one who was a pirate, however, and who was a prisoner in a gaol where he was himself confined for smuggling.
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