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'Out'ard bound with fair weather, then, I say, cried Captain Cuttle. Mr Carker smiled assent. 'Wind right astarn, and plenty of it, pursued the Captain. Mr Carker smiled assent again. 'Ay, ay! said Captain Cuttle, greatly relieved and pleased. 'I know'd how she headed, well enough; I told Wal'r so. Thank'ee, thank'ee.
You don't doubt that I am as sure of it as I am that my foot is again upon this door-step, or that I again have hold of this true hand. Do you? 'No, no, Wal'r, returned the Captain, with his beaming 'I'll hazard no more conjectures, said Walter, fervently shaking the hard hand of the Captain, who shook his with no less goodwill.
Consequently, instead of putting on his coat and waistcoat with anything like the impetuosity that could alone have kept pace with Walter's mood, he declined to invest himself with those garments at all at present; and informed Walter that on such a serious matter, he must be allowed to 'bite his nails a bit'. 'It's an old habit of mine, Wal'r, said the Captain, 'any time these fifty year.
'Hope, you see, Wal'r, said the Captain, sagely, 'Hope. It's that as animates you. Hope is a buoy, for which you overhaul your Little Warbler, sentimental diwision, but Lord, my lad, like any other buoy, it only floats; it can't be steered nowhere.
'Yes, yes, my lady lass, said the Captain, hastily deciding in his own mind upon the superior elegance of that form of address, as the most courtly he could think of. 'Is Walter's Uncle here? asked Florence. 'Here, pretty? returned the Captain. 'He ain't been here this many a long day. He ain't been heerd on, since he sheered off arter poor Wal'r.
Now what I should wish to put to you, said the Captain, lowering his voice, and speaking in a kind of confidential growl, 'in a friendly way, entirely between you and me, and for my own private reckoning, 'till your head Governor has wore round a bit, and I can come alongside of him, is this Is everything right and comfortable here, and is Wal'r out'ard bound with a pretty fair wind?
Let 'em sell the stock and take him down, said the old man, pointing feebly to the wooden Midshipman, 'and let us both be broken up together. 'And what d'ye mean to do with Wal'r?'said the Captain. 'There, there! Sit ye down, Gills, sit ye down, and let me think o' this. If I warn't a man on a small annuity, that was large enough till to-day, I hadn't need to think of it.
She only said, 'Oh, dear, dear Paul! oh, Walter! 'The wery planks she walked on, murmured the Captain, looking at her drooping face, 'was as high esteemed by Wal'r, as the water brooks is by the hart which never rejices!
'Bunsby, said the Captain, striking home at once, 'here you are; a man of mind, and a man as can give an opinion. Here's a young lady as wants to take that opinion, in regard of my friend Wal'r; likewise my t'other friend, Sol Gills, which is a character for you to come within hail of, being a man of science, which is the mother of invention, and knows no law.
'There, precious! said the Captain, when she ceased; and deep attention the Captain had paid to her while she spoke; listening, with his glazed hat all awry and his mouth wide open. 'Awast, awast, my eyes! Wal'r, dear lad, sheer off for to-night, and leave the pretty one to me! Walter took her hand in both of his, and put it to his lips, and kissed it.
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