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I told the Chicken that if he offered to clean my boots, I'd stretch him a Corpse before me! All these indications of a disordered mind were verified in Mr Toots's appearance, which was wild and savage. 'See here, Brother, said the Captain. 'This here's old Sol Gills's nevy Wal'r. Him as was supposed to have perished at sea. Mr Toots took his hand from his forehead, and stared at Walter.
And' said the Captain, rising gradually to a quotation he was preparing for a final burst, 'who comes from Sol Gills's daily, to your business, and your buzzums. The Captain's complacency as he gently jogged Mr Carker with his elbow, on concluding each of the foregoing short sentences, could be surpassed by nothing but the exultation with which he fell back and eyed him when he had finished this brilliant display of eloquence and sagacity; his great blue waistcoat heaving with the throes of such a masterpiece, and his nose in a state of violent inflammation from the same cause.
But they do say, in a circuit of some half-mile round the blue umbrella in Leadenhall Market, that some of Mr Gills's old investments are coming out wonderfully well; and that instead of being behind the time in those respects, as he supposed, he was, in truth, a little before it, and had to wait the fulness of the time and the design.
Turning round upon his stool behind the counter, Mr Gills looked out among the instruments in the window, to see if his nephew might be crossing the road. No. He was not among the bobbing umbrellas, and he certainly was not the newspaper boy in the oilskin cap who was slowly working his way along the piece of brass outside, writing his name over Mr Gills's name with his forefinger.
'No, no; what should I have to tell you, pretty! You don't expect as I've got anything good to tell you, sure? 'No! said Florence, shaking her head. The Captain looked at her wistfully, and repeated 'No, still lingering, and still showing embarrassment. 'Poor Wal'r! said the Captain. 'My Wal'r, as I used to call you! Old Sol Gills's nevy! Welcome to all as knowed you, as the flowers in May!
This incident, coupled with the Captain's observation of Florence's fatigue and faintness, decided him to prepare Sol Gills's chamber as a place of retirement for her immediately. He therefore hastily betook himself to the top of the house, and made the best arrangement of it that his imagination and his means suggested.
The whisper is that Mr Gills's money has begun to turn itself, and that it is turning itself over and over pretty briskly.
The Captain's principal intention was to pass Sol Gills's, after dark, and look in through the window: which he did, The parlour door stood open, and he could see his old friend writing busily and steadily at the table within, while the little Midshipman, already sheltered from the night dews, watched him from the counter; under which Rob the Grinder made his own bed, preparatory to shutting the shop.
And arter that you shall go aloft to old Sol Gills's room, and fall asleep there, like a angel. Captain Cuttle patted Diogenes when he made allusion to him, and Diogenes met that overture graciously, half-way.
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