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Updated: May 15, 2025
'Honest merchants, are ye, says I, 'then send us up a bunch of honest feathers first with a hard dollar or two in the core of it, d'ye see, and then I'll believe in your honesty! Why, I could ha' made my fortun' out of them beggars, if I hadn't been born and brought up honest myself, and but a sucking-dove in wisdom, saying nothing of my having a sweetheart at Toulon in the millinery line, who could have used any quantity of feathers "
'Twould ha' been more cheerful like if you'd ha' been going home." "'E-es," agreed Giles, also for the fortieth time, "'e-es I d' 'low it would, but I ain't had no folk there! I can scarce mind when I had any. I never so much as heerd the name o' this 'ere chap what has left me his fortun'. Never heerd his name never so much as knowed he were born." "Dear to be sure! It seems strange, don't it?
I'd take it wery koind o' your master if he'd elp a traveller and his woife as envies no gentlefolk their good fortun, wi' a bit o' your broken wittles. He'd never know the want of it, nor more would you.
And, talking o' gold, Marty, what what o' Bartlemy's Treasure?" "You are happily welcome to it for all me." "Why, that's spoke manly and like a friend, rot me but it is! And now where might it lie, Marty, where?" "I've no idea." "What ha'n't ye found it, lad?" "No!" "Not even seen it, then?" "No!" "Why, think o' that now, think of that! And you wi' a fortun' o' pearls on you, Marty.
"Found the fortun' as he were always a-lookin' for, a sack o' golden soverings, sir, an' bank-notes, Mr. Belloo, sir, bushels on 'em; enough ah! more 'n enough to pay off that mortgage, and to send that theer old Grimes about his business, an' away from Dapplemere for good an' all, sir." "So Grimes is really paid off, then, is he, Adam?"
Rockwell gave it to me." "It's a regular beauty. Mr. Henderson has got one that he paid a hundred dollars for; but it isn't as nice as yours." "Seems to me I have no end of luck," said Dick. "I'll be a young man of fortun' before I know it." "People will think you are now, when they see you wear such a watch as that." "Johnny Nolan'd think I stole it, if he should see it," said Dick. "Poor chap!
When the ship sunk, the said auditor, who would never leave or abandon it, took to the water with the rest of the men, and escaped by swimming, with some of the enemy's colors about him, to an uninhabited islet, called Fortun, two leguas from the place where the fight had taken place.
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