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Updated: May 18, 2025
"Don't choke him, Tom," exclaimed Hacket, who came forward, to interpose; "you'll strangle him; as Heaven's above, you will." "An' what great crime would that be?" answered the other, relaxing his awful grip of the miser. "Isn't he an' every cursed meal-monger like him a curse and a scourge to the counthry and hasn't the same counthry curses and scourges enough widhout either him or them?
"It wor a pity as the old man were so werry 'ard. I wor young and I did it rare and clumsy; it wor to pay a debt, a big, big debt. I 'ad put my 'and to a bit of paper widhout knowing wot it meant, and I wor made to pay for it, and the notes they seemed real 'andy. Well, well, I did it badly, I ha' larnt the right way since from some prison pals. I would not be found out so easy now."
"I've been thinking," said he to me on the morning after the calm had set in, "that it mayn't always be convanient for the schooner to go through the wather at her best speed, so I've devised a thriflin' arrangement that'll modherate her paces widhout annyone out of the craft bein' anny the wiser."
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