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Look'ee, shipmate, in all this crew there are no more than twenty men I can count on, nay, less ten only can I swear by. See now, here's you and Merrilees and Godby, here's Farnaby and Toby Hudd the bo'sun, Treliving the carpenter, and McLean his mate, here's Robins and Perks and Taffery the armourer good mariners all. These I can trust, shipmate, but never another one!"
"Look'ee, Mr Blifil," answered the good man, "it hath been my constant maxim in life to make the best of all matters which happen. My sister, though many years younger than I, is at least old enough to be at the age of discretion.
Now here there brake forth a clamour of oaths, cries and dismayed questioning: "Lord love us, what now, Cap'n? Is us to be murdered, look'ee? Doomed men we be, lads! Shall us wait to be shot, mates? What shall us do, Cap'n, what shall us do?" "Lie low!" quoth Tressady, rising, "Bide still all and let no man stir till I give word.
'And, look'ee, said Toole, returning, for he was going out, as he generally did, whenever he was profoundly ruffled; 'you remember the affidavit-man that was whipped and pilloried this time two years for perjury, eh? Look to it, my fine fellow. There's more than me knows how Mr.
He stopped again, and still Hiram said nothing. "And look'ee, Hiram," the old man resumed, suddenly, "I do hear that you be courtin' the girl, too; is that so?" "Yes," said Hiram, "I'm courtin' her, too." "Tut! tut!" said the Squire, "that's a pity, Hiram. I'm afraid your cakes are dough."
"Godby," says Adam, beckoning us where stood the compass or bittacle, "look'ee, as she bears now we should be nigh enough yon curst ship to learn more of her by peep o' dawn." "Aye, Cap'n and then?" "Then you shall try what you can do wi' one o' those long guns o' yours."
"Look'ee, sir," cries the colonel, "if I had not formerly had some respect for you, I should not think you worth my resentment. However, as you are a gentleman born, and an officer, and as I have had an esteem for you, I will give you some marks of it by putting it in your power to do yourself justice. I will tell you therefore, sir, that you have acted like a scoundrel."
But good luck t'ye and a fair wind, say I!" And thrusting the dagger into his girdle he nodded mighty affable. "But look'ee now, Marty, here's me wishing ye well and you wi' a barker in your fist, 'tis no fashion to greet a shipmate, I'm thinking." "Enough words!" says I, stepping up to him. "Do you go alive, or stay here dead which?" "Split me!" says he, never stirring.
Look'ee, we have quarrelled and fought, very well what's to let us from being friends again?" "But if I doubt you, Adam?" "Why, as to that," says he with his whimsical look, "I verily do think myself a something doubtful being at times."
"And look'ee, my ben cull, if I was to offer ye all Bartlemy's treasure which I can't, mark me still you'd never gather just what manner o' hook that was. Anan, says you mum, boy, says I. Howbeit, I say, 'tis a good song," quoth he, blinking drowsily at the fire, "here's battle in't, murder and sudden death and wha what more could ye expect of any song aye, and there's women in't too!"
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