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Dear me, wot a set o' hypocrites we've got to be in the hexecution of our dooty!" While Coleman moralised thus, in utter ignorance of the near proximity of an eye-witness, the smuggler at the mouth of the cave, who was no other than Orrick's friend, Rodney Nick, muttered some remarks between his teeth which were by no means complimentary to the other.
"Ye can tell the little chap, Bob," said old Joe, speaking with one eye shut, "that we're only a-feeding of him up so as to get more satisfaction out of his hexecution to-morrow morning. You can say that sailoring is a rather monotonous life, and that if he'll die game we shall all feel obliged for the hentertainment he'll afford us."
You're charged with degrading the honour of my flag, and ye 've been found guilty, and my sentence is that after a sufficient time's been granted you for prayer and meditation, ye be brought up to the place of hexecution, aboard this here cutter the Tom Bowling, and hanged by the neck till you're dead."
He saw his own life, and a hundred million lives like his, swelling and breaking like bubbles on a dark ocean, unheeded, uncared for. A newsboy passed along, clamouring "The Bow murderer, preparaitions for the hexecution!" A terrible shudder shook the cobbler's frame. His eyes ranged sightlessly after the boy; the merciful tears filled them at last.
Fenwick ill? 'Well, you see, ma'am, said Mrs. Flint, cautiously 'it's the Sheriff's horficers though they do it as kind as they can. Eugénie looked bewildered. 'A hexecution, ma'am, whispered the woman as she led the way. 'Oh! It was a cry of distress, checked by the sight of Fenwick, who stood in the door of his studio. 'I am sorry you were kept waiting, he said, hoarsely.
"Now, you see your fate," he exclaimed, lifting up his eyes as though he beheld a rope with a noose dangling from the masthead, "and since no good can come of cautioning a corpse, why then, sorry I am that there are n't a company of people arter your kind assembled aboard this craft to witness the hexecution of my sentence upon ye.
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