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I shall be quite willing to come into any arrangement you may like to make. Don't consider yourself bound to me, Jacob, but just do whatever you feel to be your duty." "You're very kind, Mayster Frank: it's just this way with me. I should like to go and see arter them as I left behind when I sailed for Australia, and see how they're coming on.
"Ah, captain, that man's been his ruin in Australia; and he'll be his ruin when he gets back to the old country, if he doesn't shake him off. But I fear he'll ne'er do that. The old lad hasna a fitter tool in all the world nor yon chap. He'll not stick at anything. He's tried robbery and murder, and he'll not be over nice about squeezing all he can out of the poor young mayster."
So, you see, mayster, as you're going yourself, I can go with you all right now." "And do you know, Jacob or rather, I'm pretty sure that you don't know, that your old friend, Captain Merryweather, has been to Adelaide. He's gone to Melbourne now, but he'll be back in a month, and we can take our passage home in the dear old Sabrina."
"Jacob, I will I will!" cried his master, deeply touched. "Every word you say is true. I'm a miserable, worthless wretch. I don't deserve the love and devotion of a noble lad like you." "Nay, mayster don't say so," cried Jacob; "but oh, if you'd only sign the pledge, and be an out-and-out gradely teetottaller, it'd be the happiest day of my life." "Well, Jacob, I'll see about the signing.
I loved you afore you saved my life, and I've loved you better nor my own life ever since you saved it. And oh, I can't abide to see you throw away health and strength, and your good name and all, for the sake of that wretched drink as'll bring you to misery and beggary and shame. Oh, don't dear mayster, don't don't keep the horrid poison in your house.
Jacob was troubled at the question, yet he could hardly tell why; he answered, however, "Well, Mayster Frank, I'm not thinking of meddling with my nuggets at present." "Hadn't you better then leave them with me till you return?" asked Frank. Poor Jacob was sorely puzzled what to reply. He looked down, and there was an awkward pause. At last he said,
"Well, Mayster Frank?" said Jacob, with a look of strong incredulity.
He walked hastily a step or two towards the house, and then turned back. "And pray, my friend Jacob," he said, with a forced assumption of gaiety, "why should my little bottle of spirits be worse for you than ten thousand boggarts?" "Oh, Mayster Frank, Mayster Frank," was the reply, "just excuse me, and hearken to me one minute.
I thought when I left my home, where the drink had drowned out all as was good, as I should never love any one any more. I thought as I'd try and get through the world without heart at all but it wasn't to be. The captain found a soft place in my heart, and I loved him. But that were nothing at all to the love I've had to yourself, Mayster Frank.
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