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"It is well said, by Allah!" "I suppose I may just as well come to an anchor," said the sailor, suiting the action to the word, and dropping down on the mats. "There," continued he, folding his legs in imitation of the Turks, "as it's the fashion to have a cross in your hawse, on this here country, I can be a bit of a lubber as well as yourselves.
Jewel lifted her shoulders and looked at him. "Then we ought to row over, don't you think so?" "You're not willing to be a thorough-going land lubber, are you?" returned the broker. "No," Jewel sighed. "I'd rather bail than keep off the pond. Oh, but I forgot," with a sudden thought, "mother'd get wet if she rowed over and it would be too bad to make her walk through the fields alone."
"Want to see my father?" said Mark, as the man continued to stare and wipe his shoes. "Ware sharks! Heave off, you ugly lubber! I say: will he bite?" This was consequent upon a pattering of toe-nails upon the oil-cloth and the appearance of Bruff, the dog, who began to walk round the visitor and smell him. "No, he won't bite friends," said Mark.
Parmiter chanced to be coming along at the moment. Hearing the laugh, and seeing the pitiable object of it, he flew into a rage, sprang at Desmond, and knocked him down. "What do you mean, you clumsy young lubber, you," he cried, "by treating my smalls like that? I'll brain you, sure as my name's Parmiter!" Desmond had already suffered not a little at Parmiter's hands. His endurance was at an end.
I pointed to my mouth, for it was so parched that I could not speak, and ran to the water-cask, where I drank as much as would have floated a canoe. The first thing I said, as soon as I could speak, was "Damn that fire-ship, and the lubber that set her on fire."
I know thee well, for Sir Kay named thee Fair-hands. What art thou but a lubber and a turner of spits, and a ladle washer?" "Damsel," said Fair-hands, "say to me what ye will, I will not go from you, for I have undertaken, in King Arthur's presence, to achieve your adventure, and so shall I finish it, or I shall die therefore."
That lubber Groggy Fox ran into me, cut down my bulwarks, and carried away my bowsprit an' some o' my top-hamper." "Come along have a glass, an' let's hear all about it," said Bryce, seizing his friend's arm; but Lockley held back. "No, Ned," he said; "I'm on another tack just now." "What! not hoisted the blue ribbon, eh!" "No," returned Lockley, with a laugh. "I've no need to do that."
A decent serving-man, in a semi-doctorial livery of black cloth, with a large white collar laid far over his shoulders, and cuffs of the same upon his wrists, stood in the open doorway and smiled apologetically at the visitor. He was rather red in the face and panted with his exertions. "I ask your pardon, young sir," he said. "That fool, Jan Lubber Fiend, will ever be at his tricks.
"Come up hither, good Jan," I cried to him. "I will run and open the gate!" But the Lubber Fiend only shook his head till his ears flapped like burdocks in the wind by the wood edges. "Jan will come none within that gate to tell where he has been," he said. "Jan may be a fool, but he knows better than that." "And where have you been?" I asked, eagerly.
Hows'ever, like the lubber he is axing your pardon humbly, sir, for speakin' disrespectable of one of your passengers, sir he lets the dipper slip in between the breakers; and in tryin' to get it out again he managed to cast off the lashin's; two of the breakers struck adrift; and before we could do anything with 'em they had started three of the planks, makin' the boat leak that bad that, as you saw yourself, sir, it were all we could do to keep her above water until you reached us."
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