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Thin I became a man, an' the divil of a man I was fifteen years ago. They called me Buck Mulvaney in thim days, an', begad, I tuk a woman's eye. I did that! Ortheris, ye scrub, fwhat are ye sniggerin' at? Do you misdoubt me?" "Devil a doubt!" said Ortheris; "but I've 'eard summat like that before!" Mulvaney dismissed the impertinence with a lofty wave of his hand and continued
Then, by-and-by, when eight bells struck and I rang the bell for breakfast, along comes Turnbull, and says to me "`Well, Jim, I s'pose you've 'eard the news? "`Yes, bo'sun, I says, `I 'ave. "`Very well, he says; `that's all right. Now, 'e says, `all as you 'ave to do, my son, is to behave yourself and do your dooty, takin' care not to interfere with my arrangements.
His wife, catching something of the message so hastily delivered, lay still with wide-open eyes and straining ears. "Bill! I 'eard it cry, I 'eard it cry," she exclaimed suddenly. "There 'tis again, only louder," she added, as she essayed to sit up in bed just as the neighbour hurried into the room.
But Maga's eyes were practised like those of all other wild creatures in detecting movement behind her as well as in front. She spat, and gave vent to a final ultimatum. "You 'ave 'eard. I said you let that man Will Yerr-kees alone! An' don't you dare come to Zeitoon without a 'usband!"
I put the bottle down and listened, but everything seemed deathly still. I took it up agin, and 'ad just poured out a drop o' whisky when I distinctly 'eard a hissing noise and then a little moan. "For a moment I sat turned to stone.
"What is the matter, Mrs. Brown?" I asked. "It's master!" she gasped. "Oh, 'ow 'e frightened me! If you had seen 'is eyes, Mr. Colmore, sir. I thought 'e would 'ave been the death of me." "But what had you done?" "Done, sir! Nothing. At least nothing to make so much of. Just laid my 'and on that black box of 'is 'adn't even opened it, when in 'e came and you 'eard the way 'e went on.
"Woman," repeated the mate, snappishly; "you've heard of a woman afore, haven't you? Well, there's a certain young woman I'm walking out with I " "Walking out?" gasped the skipper. "Why, I never 'eard o' such a thing." "You would ha' done if you'd been better looking, p'raps," retorted the other. "Well, I've offered this young woman to come for a trip with us."
"Suppose," said the cook, "some one what liked you, Jem what liked you, mind 'eard you say this over and over again, an' see you sufferin' and 'eard you groanin' and not able to do nothin' for you except lend you a few shillings here and there for medicine, or stand you a few glasses o' rum; suppose they knew a chap in a chemist's shop?" "Suppose they did?" said the other, turning pale.
Do you think for one instant if all the females in Christendom were to fall in love with me I would marry any one of them! No, a thousand times, no. I repeat I will never, never marry. 'I 'eard yer, said Elizabeth, 'and do you sit there and mean to tell me that you're going to break a gentle woman's 'eart deliberate? The imputation caused me to shudder from head to foot. 'No, no, Elizabeth.
Ye-es, I've 'eard prettier, but then it's better than a good many, and that's sum-mat, ain't it? And then, as I said afore, it's pretty vell known." "How so?" "Vell, sir, there be some as 'as a leanin' to one branch o' the profession, and some to another, now mine's murders." "Murders?" said Barnabas, staring. "Vith a werry big M., sir.
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