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Pigtop's repugnance, however, to the employment of a lawyer could not be overcome; so, not being able to obtain his consent, I determined to try and do without it, which my friend averred to be impossible. At nine o'clock precisely, as the smoking dishes appeared, so did the lawyer.
In such a conjuncture of circumstances, even the well-clothed may understand what a blessing a new suit of warm blue must be that suit bearing in its suite a long line of substantial breakfasts, dinners, and suppers. All this was about to be Mr Pigtop's, our kind messmate, and respectable mate of the orlop deck.
"Captain Reud's compliments to Mr Pigtop, and would be glad of his company to dinner." Angelic words, when the invited reefer has a clean shirt, or collar, and a decent uniform. "`Mr Pigtop's compliments to Captain Reud, and will be most happy to wait on him. There, you dogs," said the elated Pigtop, "I say no more lending of clothes.
"A holy and a good man, doubtless; would that we were all like him! But our time will come yes, our time will come. As is the outward man of the Reverend Mr Obadiah Longspinner, so would my friend have his outward man verily, and his inward also improved unto sanctity." The devout tailor snuffled out "Amen," and did his office. Whilst Pigtop's clothes were preparing, he was not idle.
But the conversation if conversation we must term the gibberish of my associates having taken another turn, I slowly lifted up my smooth face, and, confronting Mr Pigtop's rough one, I said to him, very coolly, "Mr Pigtop, I am going to do what you would very much like to see I am going to wop you." "Wop me! no, no, it's not come to that yet.
The ship's barber was then sent for, and he positively refused to go over the bloody surface. But Joshua Daunton was the true friend, the friend in need. With Mr Pigtop's permission, he would go and borrow one of Dr Thompson's razors. The offer was gratefully accepted. In the meantime, dinner was actually announced.
The females in my establishment bear but a most niggardly proportion to the males in the ratio of Falstaff, one pennyworth of bread to his many gallons of sack: and these few are the most hideous, pox-marked, blear-eyed damsels that the country could produce all Pigtop's doing.
An hour before the captain's dinner was ready, the much envied suit was brought aft, and duly displayed on Mr Pigtop's chest. The ward-room officers, or at least those of them with whom he could take that liberty, were invited out to view it. It was pronounced, for ship-tailoring, excellent. Pigtop's elation was great. So was Josh Daunton's; but all in a quiet, submissive way.
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