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So slope, if you please, for I want to sneeze, and if I do, it will blow your cap over the market-house, and you'll be lucky if your head don't go along with it." "'Come away, said I, 'Mac, that fellow has no more manners than a heathen. "'He's an hignorant beast, said he, 'he is beneath notice. "The man eard that, and called after him, 'Hofficer, hofficer, said he.
For nine days you have been paid every night, and paid pretty well, as you yourself acknowledge, to haul a ship off a shoal; and all the time you have been hauling her harder upon it!" "Young man," replied Tugwell, with just indignation, "a hofficer should be above such words. But I forgive 'e, and hope the Lord will do the same, with allowance for youth and ill-convenience.
Why, I consider that we had better now directly sing the song over again, all in chorus, and then we shall have damned the admiral a dozen times over; and Vanslyperken will hear us, and say to himself, `They don't sing that song for nothing. What do you say, Dick Short, you're first hofficer?" "Yes," replied Short.
"If you please, Captain Vilson, I am wery sorry to be obliged to make hany complaint of hany hofficer, but this Mr Heasy thought proper to make use of language quite hunbecoming of a gentleman, and then to kick me as I vent down the atchvay." "Well, Mr Easy, is this true?" "Yes, sir," replied Jack; "I have several times told the fellow not to address himself to me, and he will.
"I'll be blest if he is, nor under nayther," cried the biggest of the coaly men; "this here froggy come out of a Chaise and Mary as had run up from Dunkirk. I know Robin Lyth as well as our own figure-head. But what good to try reason with that there revenue hofficer?"
And again Kirkwood sought Stryker, his carking query ready on his lips. But the captain impatiently waved him aside. "Don't you bother me now, me lud juke! Wyte until I gets done with the custom hofficer." Kirkwood acceded, perforce; and bided his time with what tolerance he could muster.
But the hofficer that did dooty to-day seemed to me to 'ave made a wager to read the prayers against time, an' that can do no good at all to any one, you know. Far better, in my opinion, to 'ave no service at all. No wonder men won't listen. Why, it's a mockery that's what it is."
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