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''Ope you made 'em jump, said Huish. 'When it was necessary, Mr Whish, I made them jump, said Attwater. 'You bet you did, cried the captain. He was a good deal flushed, but not so much with wine as admiration; and his eyes drank in the huge proportions of the other with delight. 'You bet you did, and you bet that I can see you doing it! By God, you're a man, and you can say I said so.
The keynote of these gentlemen is struck in the second chapter, where all three of them writing lies home Davis and Herrick, sentimental equivocations, Huish the strongest of brag with nobody to send it to. In a burst of weakness Davis tells Herrick what a villain he has been, through rum, and how he can not let his daughter, "little Adar," know it.
Two companies of them, towsy-headed and bare-legged, but loud in hymn and prayer, had come out from their fastnesses to help the Protestant cause. At their heels came the woodmen and lumberers of Bishop's Lidiard, big, sturdy men in green jerkins, and the white-smocked villagers of Huish Champflower.
'Golly! said Huish. 'It's rather in the conditional mood, said Herrick. 'It's anything you please, cried Davis, 'only there it is! That's our place, and don't you make any mistake. "'Which from private interests would remain unknown," read Herrick, over his shoulder. 'What may that mean? 'It should mean pearls, said Davis. 'A pearling island the government don't know about?
Upon its crown is an encampment with a ditch, its bottom 45 feet from the summit of the wall. The view, except down the Sid valley to the sea, is restricted, but in every direction it is beautiful. About half a mile north of the village is a fine old mansion called Sand, belonging to the Huish family and erected in the closing years of the sixteenth century.
In a surprisingly short time the captain reappeared; he did not look at Herrick, but called Huish back and sat down. "Well," he began, "I've taken stock roughly." He paused as if for somebody to help him out; and none doing so, both gazing on him instead with manifest anxiety, he yet more heavily resumed: "Well, it won't fight. We can't do it; that's the bed-rock.
He could think of nothing more recondite than a revolver. Huish resumed his seat. "Now," said he, "are you man enough to take charge of 'Errick and the niggers? Because I'll take care of Hattwater." "How?" cried Davis. "You can't!" "Tut, tut!" said the clerk. "You gimme time. Wot's the first point? The first point is that we can't get ashore, and I'll make you a present of that for a 'ard one.
"You've said what I would take from no man breathing but yourself; only I know it's true." "I have to tell you, Captain Brown," pursued Herrick, "that I resign my position as mate. You can put me in irons or shoot me, as you please; I will make no resistance only, I decline in any way to help or to obey you; and I suggest you should put Mr. Huish in my place.
In the cabin at one corner of the table, immediately below the lamp, and on the lee side of a bottle of champagne, sat Huish. 'What's this? Where did that come from? asked the captain. 'It's fizz, and it came from the after-'old, if you want to know, said Huish, and drained his mug.
To a cat he might be likened himself, as he lolled at the head of his table, dealing out attentions and innuendoes, and using the velvet and the claw indifferently. And both Huish and the captain fell progressively under the charm of his hospitable freedom. Over the third guest the incidents of the dinner may be said to have passed for long unheeded.
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