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Updated: May 10, 2025
But remember, now, I'll have no doubting no cavilling. If you don't choose to believe what I say, you need not listen any more. I will not submit to have my word called in question." "Heave ahead!" said a voice outside; I suspected it was Spellman's.
As the French marines fired, I felt a sharp burning pang in my shoulder, which made me jump on one side, while I saw Spellman's orange flying away, and, putting up both his hands, he cried out, "Oh, my orange! my orange! and they have riddled my cheeks, the blackguards." I could not help laughing at his exclamation and face of astonishment, in spite of the sickness which was creeping over me.
"Oh, dear! oh, my wound! my wound!" My shipmates, seeing the effect produced, imitated my example. "What, wounded, my dear child? What, have you been wounded?" exclaimed my mother and sisters in chorus. "Of course I have; and do you think those deep dimples on Spellman's cheeks I forgot to introduce him, by the bye.
He had, I considered, fairly won the right to cob all the party; but, grown bold by his success, he descended by the lift to the topsail yard-arm, and was about to stoop down to traverse the brace to the mainmast, when, from hearing Spellman's shout, he looked up, and, missing his grasp, over he went headlong into the water. I was at the time on the cross-jack yard. I ran to the end.
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