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"There are all kinds of Englishmen, black and white, when seamen grow scarce. Hows'ever, there is no use in looking out for the worst we shall know all about it, when the ship gets in. How are we to behave, Miles, in this here battle? It goes ag'in my feelin's to help an Englishman; and yet an old salt don't like to keep under hatches, while powder is burning on deck."
"At least so I made it out; but I knew no Dutch, and there was only one chap aboard that thought he knowed English; but Lord bless ye, gentlemen, I couldn't make top nor tail of what he said. I managed to make out hows'ever that I'd had a narrow squeak of it, and that's about all.
"Your mother would be astonished to see us now, lad." "She'll hear all about it some day," said Billy. "You've no notion what a splendid story I'll make out of all this when we get back to Cove!" It was evident that the Bu'ster inherited much of his mother's sanguine disposition. "P'raps we'll never git back to Cove," said Gaff sadly; "hows'ever, we've no reason to complain.
"He ranged up alongside as quiet as you please, hows'ever, and just dodged round and round me, off and on, as if he didn't quite know what I was made of. "I expect it was the flutterin' of the flag overhead as he didn't understand; but, any way, he kept very quiet and peaceable for a good long spell, and I was beginnin' to hope he wouldn't have no truck with me.
Hows'ever, here we are, low enough, an' havin' made an assault on the turnkey, it's not likely we'll get much favour at the hands of the Mounseers; so it comes to this, that we must set our brains to steep, an' see if we can't hit upon some dodge or other to escape." "That's what we must do," assented Bill Bowls, knitting his brows, and gazing abstractedly at the blank wall opposite.
They can't see us no more than we can them; anyhow, till it come mornin'. If we could hear the sound again so as to make out the direction. I didn't notice that." "I did," interrupted William. "Both the voices I heard were out this way." The boy pointed to leeward. "To leuart, you think they wur?" "I'm sure they came from that quarter." "That be curious, hows'ever," said the sailor.
"I don't believe you will," returned Molloy, also rising, and giving full vent to a sympathetic and vociferous yawn. "Hows'ever, w'en a young feller insists on havin' his way, it's best to give him plenty of cable and let him swing. He's sure to find out his mistake by experience. But look ye here, Miles, I've took a fancy to you, an' I'd be sorry to think you was in difficulties.
"This squall, as ye call it, won't blow over so soon as ye think," replied Rodney Nick in a sulky tone. "Hows'ever, we may as well wait here as anywhere else; or die here for all that I care!" "Hallo! messmate, wot's ado that ye should go into the blues when we're on the pint o' making our fortins?" said Orrick.
It was an ill wind Jeff, almost a disaster. Hows'ever, I had to grin an' bear it. But I couldn't rest till next day; so I hired a native boat, determined to do my best in the circumstances, and you may be sure I wasn't in the best of humours, as we went creepin' slowly up that river, when I knew that the hours of opportunity were slippin' away.
"I dunno rightly, sir, an' never shall this side o' glory, but 'twere a shape, a thing I might call it a ghost an' I might call it a phanitum; hows'ever 't were a shape, sir, as I seed a-floatin' an' a-wailin' Lord, I'll never forget 'ow it wailed!" Here he mopped his brow at the mere recollection. "But do you never see any one about by day?"
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