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"Take that," said Billy, when he'd done, "and now you'll please to work, I read the Bible often but I don't my duty shirk. The pumps they are not choked yet, nor do we yet despair, When all is up or we are saved, we'll join with you in prayer." "And now we'll have one from the other side of the house," said Moggy, as soon as the plaudits were over.
Moggy was astonished at the sight of the gold Jacobus, which she took up and examined as Nancy departed. "Well," thought she, "but this smuggling must be a pretty consarn; and as sure as gold is gold, my Jemmy shall be a smuggler." Nancy turned down the street, and passed rapidly on, until she was clear of the fortifications, in the direction of South Sea Beach.
"How came you on board, woman?" cried Vanslyperken, looking at her from top to toe several times, as usual, with his hands in his great-coat pockets, and his battered speaking trumpet under his arm. "How did I come on board! why, in a boat to be sure," replied Moggy, determined to have a breeze. "Why did you not go on shore before the cutter sailed?" replied Vanslyperken in an angry tone.
"Oh, Moggy, Moggy! what were your geography teachers thinking about?" cried her brother. "It seems sometimes as if America were entirely left out of the maps used in English schools." "Lionel," said his sister, "how can you say such things? It isn't so at all; but of course we learned more about the important countries." Imogen spoke quite artlessly; she had no intention of being rude.
"How came you on board, woman?" cried Vanslyperken, looking at her from top to toe several times, as usual, with his hands in his great-coat pockets, and his battered speaking-trumpet under his arm. "How did I come on board! why, in a boat to be sure," replied Moggy, determined to have a breeze. "Why did you not go on shore before the cutter sailed?" replied Vanslyperken, in an angry tone.
Vanslyperken poured out another glass of scheedam, and pushed the stone bottle to the corporal, who helped himself without ceremony. Mr Vanslyperken was now about two thirds drunk, for he was not used to such a quantity of spirits. "Now, if I had only been friends with that that hell fire Moggy Salisbury," thought Vanslyperken, speaking aloud to himself.
Whilst she was arguing with them the door opened, and Old Moggy appeared, an unattractive figure, bent with age, covered with rags, and her countenance weather-beaten and scared, and expressive of a melancholy, wild, and restless spirit.
"I'm a brute," he exclaimed. "There, Moggy, there, dear don't cry. Of course you're tired; I ought to have thought of it before." He petted and consoled her, and Imogen, who was really spent and weary, found the process so agreeable that she prolonged her tears a little.
'Now, don't let the mistress be downhearted keep her up, Moggy, do you mind. I told her the master was with Lord Castlemallard since yesterday evening, on business, and don't you say anything else; keep her quiet, do ye mind, and humour her.
Then Moggy lighted the fire with the stump of a candle, for the night was a little chill, and she set the small round table beside it, and laid her master's pipe and tobacco-box on it, and listened, and began to wonder what detained him. So she went out into the sharp still air, and stood on the hall-door step, and listened again.
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