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No, no we can discriminate, by God's blessing, between the young of the plundering fox and the cub of a lion: both are destructive, but the one is mean and cowardly: the other it shall be our care to train the other to nobler purposes." Springall raised his eyes, almost for the first time, from the ground, and started at seeing his friends standing on a level with the Protector.
Robin followed Springall into the room he had so recently left, and stood at the entrance; fixing at the same time his eyes, which, it must be confessed, were of unrivalled brilliancy and blackness, upon the Buccaneer, he said "Captain, I would speak a few words with you in private, after which we will talk of the danger that surrounds us."
Sure you know of old, that Jack will have his joke, and means no harm. Besides, he's only a land-lubber, after all." "Well, pepper away, brave boys! pepper away! I'll have my revenge on you all yet!" continued the trooper. "You won't inform, will you?" exclaimed Springall, ever ready for a fray, pushing his beardless face close to the weather-beaten countenance of sturdy Roupall.
Know you not the bold brow, and the bright eye blue, blue as the waters and the heavens he has so long looked upon? Off with ye'r hats, my boys," he added to the children; "and, Robin, is yours nailed to your head, that it answers not his signal? it is the young sea captain of whom, even here, we have heard and read so much. It is Springall!"
And he disappeared so instantaneously from the spot, that Springall rubbed first his eyes, and then his arm, to be assured whether the events of the last few minutes were not the effects of a distempered imagination.
After a lengthened pause, he looked suddenly up at the youth Springall, who still sat opposite to him, and said abruptly, "Are you sure you made no mistake?" "Am I sure of the sight of my eyes, or the hearing of my ears?" returned the lad.
He was present in the room at the Gull's Nest when Robin recounted to the Buccaneer the peril in which Barbara had been placed; and the young sailor speedily forgot the meek jesting of the maiden in the magnitude of her danger. "The black-eyed boy has not been near the house all day," added Springall, "and my own belief is, that he's no he, but a woman in disguise.
Robin said a true word in jest the other day, that men as well as puppies were born blind, only it takes a much longer period to open our eyes, than those of our four-footed friends." "So it does," said Springall, laughing; "that was one of Robin's wise sayings. Barbara! I beg your pardon, Mistress Hays do you think him as wise as ever?"
What do you think of that, captain?" Dalton saw no necessity for reply, and Springall continued: At every stumble their horses made, the psalm-singing scoundrels offered up an ejaculation. May I never reef a sail, captain, if they didn't pray more, going that length of road, than you, and I, and all the crew of the Fire-fly put together, have prayed during the last twelve, ay, twice twelve months!
The greatest villain in the world dislikes to be thought a listener, on the same principle that men would rather be accused of crime than cowardice of vice than folly; poor Springall stopped and stammered until commanded to go on. "It was a fine day, and, thinking I should like a bath, I let myself down close by the cabin window with a rope.
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