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"Speak not of it, my good Goatley," said Richard, hastily, "or you will set me dreaming and make me mad." "Then it is indeed so," returned Goatley. "Wherefore then come you not, sir, where a crew is waiting for you of as good fellows as ever stepped on a deck, and who, one and all, are longing after such a captain as you are, sir? Wherefore hold back while still in your prime?"
Stern Puritan as he was, the minister himself contained his satisfaction that the Papist woman was to die and never reign over England until he was out of hearing of the pale maiden who had strange as it seemed to him loved her enough to be almost broken-hearted at her death. Richard saw Goatley and set him to prepare the Mastiff for an immediate voyage.
When they entered their own hall they found their mother engaged in conversation with a tall, stout, and weather-beaten man, whom she announced "See here, my children, here is a good friend of your father's, Master Goatley, who was his chief mate in all his voyages, and hath now come over all the way from Hull to see him!
"Thou hast a tongue, wench, be thou who thou mayst," said Elizabeth sharply. "Stand back, and let him tell his own tale." Richard very briefly related the history of the rescue of the infant, which he said he could confirm by the testimony of Goatley and of Heatherthwayte.
Talbot's boat, and found Cicely, well cloaked and muffled, sitting under an awning, under the care of old Goatley, who treated her like a little queen, and was busy explaining to her all the different craft which filled the river. She sprang up with the utmost delight at the sight of Mrs. Curll, and threw herself into her arms.
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