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At length, however, he found that he could do better with a mate. "I must get David Treloar, as I said some time ago," he observed to Nelly. "He is twice as strong as I am, though it would not do to trust him alone in a boat, as he never seems to know which way the wind is, or how the tide is running; but he is honest and good-natured, and staunch as steel, and he will do what I tell him.
They kept laughing and talking together, or occasionally exchanging a word with those in the boats on either side of them. "I hope we shall have better luck than yesterday," said David Treloar. "I had made up my mind that we should have the schools if they came near us, and yet they got off again just at the time I thought we had them secured."
"I should care little for what they may say," answered Michael; "all I wish is to grow into a strong man to be able to work for you and Nelly and poor father, if he does not gain his strength. I will do my best now, and when the pilchard season comes on I hope, if I can get David Treloar or another hand in the boat, to do still better." Day after day Paul Trefusis lay on his sick-bed.
That's all I want. If he had been with me in the little `Duck, we might have gained the harbour and saved her, and though I take all the care I can, yet I may be caught again in the same way." David Treloar was a nephew of old Reuben Lanaherne, who had done his best to bring up the poor lad, and make a fisherman of him.
"That I have seen female humans who were as bad as pigs and worse." There was a long pained silence. The little man seemed withered by the coarse brutality of the reply. In his face was unutterable hurt and woe. "You have told of a man who made a not nice remark and you have classified him," Treloar said in cold, even tones.
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