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"He must be mad quite mad," exclaimed Sawbridge, whose astonishment even mastered his indignation. "Mad as a March hare by God." "No, sir," replied Jack, "I am not mad, but I am a philosopher." "A what?" exclaimed Sawbridge, "damme, what next? well, my joker, all the better for you; I shall put your philosophy to the proof."
Alderman Sawbridge maintained that, if the abolition passed, the Africans, who could not be sold as slaves, would be butchered at home; while those, who had been carried to our islands, would be no longer under control. Hence insurrections, and the manifold evils which belonged to them. Alderman Newnham was certain that the abolition would be the ruin of the trade of the country.
"Speak frankly, Mr Easy; if you prefer Captain Sawbridge to me I shall not be affronted." "No, sir," replied Easy, "I do not prefer Captain Sawbridge to you; you have both been equally kind to me, but I prefer you. But the fact is, sir, that I do not much like to part with Gascoigne, or " "Or who?" said the captain, smiling.
The brother, Charles Dursley, had urged upon the executors to anticipate the time directed by the will for the sale of the property; and having persuaded the niece to give a written authorization for the immediate sale, the executors, chiefly, Sawbridge supposed, prompted by their own necessities, sold the estate accordingly.
Easy and Gascoigne were summoned, listened very respectfully to all Captain Sawbridge said, promised to conduct themselves with the utmost propriety, received a letter to the vice-consul, and were sent with their hammocks and chests in the cabin on board the Eliza, Ann, brig, of two hundred and sixteen tons, chartered by government the master and crew of which were all busy forward heaving up their anchors.
He therefore stood out into the breeze, and, after half an hour, tacked in-shore, and fetched well to windward of the low point; but, finding no vessels, he stood out again. Thus had he made three or four tacks, and had gained, perhaps, six or seven miles, when he perceived signals of recall made to leeward, enforced with guns. "Mr Sawbridge wants us to come back, Mesty."
Shortly afterwards, the company arrived, and Jack soon forgot all about it. In the meantime, Sawbridge called at the captain's lodgings, and found him at home: he made a very faithful report of all that had happened, and concluded his requests by demanding, in great wrath, either an instant dismissal or a court-martial on our hero, Jack. "Stop, Sawbridge," replied Captain Wilson, "take a chair.
"The devil he has," roared Mr Sawbridge, with all the indignation of a first lieutenant defrauded three weeks of a midshipman; "where is he; in the coffee-room?" "Oh dear no, sir," replied the waiter, "Mr Easy has the front apartments on the first floor." "Well, then, show me up to the first floor." "May I request the pleasure of your name, sir?" said the waiter.
Mr Sawbridge kept her three masts in one, that they might not be perceived, and winded the boats with their heads the same way, so that they might dash on board of her with a few strokes of the oars.
Jack, who did not understand this, fared badly, and it was not till the calls piped belay that he could recover his legs, after having been trampled upon by half the starboard watch, and the breath completely jammed out of his body, Jack reeled to a carronade slide, when the officers who had been laughing at the lark as well as the men, perceived his situation among others, Mr Sawbridge, the first lieutenant.
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