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Still with the same result: the contents were still colourless and tasteless, and dead as the rain in a beached fishing-boat. "Crikey!" said Huish. "Here, let's sample the hold," said the captain, mopping his brow with a back-handed sweep; and the three stalked out of the house, grim and heavy-footed.
"O, you may do sentry-go till you're blue in the mug, you won't find anythink else," said Huish. There was a little silence; the captain, like a man launched on a swing, flying dizzily among extremes of conjecture and refusal. "But see," he said, suddenly pausing. "Can you? Can the thing be done? It it can't be easy."
quoted Attwater, with a smile, which instantly gave way to an air of funereal solemnity. 'I shall particularly expect Mr Whish, he continued. 'Mr Whish, I trust you understand the invitation? 'I believe you, my boy! replied the genial Huish. 'That is right then; and quite understood, is it not? said Attwater. 'Mr Whish and Captain Brown at six-thirty without fault and you, Hay, at four sharp.
Why, it seems almost worth it in itself to a man fond of wine." The ambiguous words struck home to guilty consciences, and Huish and the captain sat up in their places and regarded him with a scare. "Worth what?" said Davis. "A hundred and twelve shillings," replied Attwater. The captain breathed hard for a moment.
All the time, and spurring him to the more attention, song, loud talk, fleering laughter and the occasional popping of a cork, reached his ears from the interior of the house; and when the port watch was relieved at midnight, Huish and the captain appeared upon the quarter-deck with flushed faces and uneven steps, the former laden with bottles, the latter with two tin mugs.
I should prefer it so; I should do it with no more remorse than winking. Take care take care, you little cad! The animosity with which these words were uttered was so marked in itself, and so remarkable in the man who uttered them that Huish stared, and even the humiliated Davis reared up his head and gazed at his defender.
'Well, it 'as 'appened, you see, returned Huish. 'Try some; it's devilish good. The Rubicon was crossed without another struggle. The captain filled a mug and drank. 'I wish it was beer, he said with a sigh. 'But there's no denying it's the genuine stuff and cheap at the money. Now, Huish, you clear out and take your wheel. The little wretch had gained a point, and he was gay.
"No matter who's to blame, you know it, right enough," said the captain, "and I'm obliged to you for the reminder. Now, here's this Attwater: what do you think of him?" "I do not know," said Herrick. "I am attracted and repelled. He was insufferably rude to you." "And you, Huish?" said the captain. Huish sat cleaning a favourite briar-root; he scarce looked up from that engrossing task.
Well awyre as I am of the just suspicions with w'ich I am regarded, I do not venture to solicit the fyvour of an interview for myself, but in order to put an end to a situytion w'ich must be equally pyneful to all, I 'ave deputed my friend and partner, Mr J. L. Huish, to l'y before you my proposals, and w'ich by their moderytion, Will, I trust, be found to merit your attention.
"Huish!" began the captain with energy; and then stopped, and remained staring at him with corrugated brows. "Well, hout with it!" said Huish. "'Ave you anythink else to put up? Is there any other chanst to try?" The captain held his peace. "There you are then!" said Huish, with a shrug. Davis fell again to his pacing.
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