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We covered him up with his blankets, for he was pretty shivery. Then we came out. During the whole time, he had not spoken a word. As we went aft, Stubbins remarked that he thought the business must have made him a bit dotty. "It's driven him clean barmy," he went on. "He don't hunderstand a word that's said ter him." "He may be different in the morning," I answered.
They're cur'ous talkers i' this country, sir; the gentry's hard work to hunderstand 'em. I was brought hup among the gentry, sir, an' got the turn o' their tongue when I was a bye. Why, what do you think the folks here says for 'hevn't you? the gentry, you know, says, 'hevn't you' well, the people about here says 'hanna yey. It's what they call the dileck as is spoke hereabout, sir.
Aby had well known that his father in his present mood would not stand the manner in which the interruption was attempted. Nor did he wish to quarrel before the publican and his daughter. But anything was better than allowing his father to continue in the strain in which he was talking. "You are talking of things which you don't hunderstand, and about people you don't know," said Aby.
Besides, we're not out here for lessons, Miss Stewart and I, but just as spectators. We'll look on and see the other girls learn the proper caper," laughed Polly. "Then I can't for the life of me hunderstand why you came hout at all. Hit's just a-stirrin' hup and a-fidgeting the other 'orses. They're not used to the goin's hon of 'alf broke hanimals." "Half broken!
"I hunderstand," he remarked, puffing at a trichinopoly, "that you want my 'elp in fitting up this 'ere 'ouse with a happarition." I acknowledged the correctness of his surmise, while mentally wondering at those restless eyes of his, which still danced about the room as if he were making an inventory of the contents.
"Now do you hunderstand? Because if you do, I don't know but you'd better be trottin'. Biby's gorn to sleep, and seems to be sleepin' light." "Yes, I think I understand," Rosemary whispered, jumping up from her footstool. "Goodbye. And thank you very much for letting me come and see you and the baby."
"Now do you hunderstand? Because if you do, I don't know but you'd better be trottin'. Biby's gorn to sleep, and seems to be sleepin' light." "Yes, I think I understand," Rosemary whispered, jumping up from her footstool. "Goodbye. And thank you very much for letting me come and see you and the baby."
He lapsed into silence, and smoked. "I carn't understand 'ow it is ther Second Mate didn't 'appen to spot it," Quoin said, in a puzzled voice. It seemed to me that Plummer nudged him to be quiet. It looked as if Plummer shared the Second Mate's opinion, and the idea made me savage. But Stubbins's next remark drew my attention. "I don't hunderstand it," he said, again; speaking with deliberation.
"I don't think it was a stowaway, somehow," I said, chipping in. "What would a stowaway want aloft? I guess he'd be trying more for the Steward's pantry." "You bet he would, hevry time," said Stubbins. He lit his pipe, and sucked at it, slowly. "I don't hunderstand it, all ther same," he remarked, after a moment's silence. "Neither do I," I said.
Yer carn't say as it's ever been proved as it wasn't." Stubbins passed the box back to me, and went on without noticing Quoin's remark: "Told you to go an' have a snooze, did he? I don't hunderstand what he's bluffin' at." "How do you mean, bluffing?" I asked. He nodded his head, sagely. "It's my hidea he knows you saw that light, just as bloomin' well as I do."
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