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Updated: June 12, 2025
And it's understood that mum's the word; but mind you're not through the wood yet. What do you say, Yaunie?" "I say you no speak so loud or so much. It is better not." "Very well, old skin-the-goat," said Farquarson playfully; "I suppose I am a bit noisy."
I'm glad to see you making such a good breakfast." "Well, you know," replied the guest, "the worst of me is, I appear to be unsociable when I'm eating, as I cannot both eat and talk." "Go on eating, then," said the host. "Yes, go on eatin'," responded Yaunie. "You had a long passage, and must be hungry." "Quite right," replied the guest, with his mouth full.
Yaunie was taken fully into the confidence of the captain and Patrovish, and when he took his leave they felt sure that to have him as a friend was of great value in the event of the affair being resurrected. The captain had renewed many old friendships, and spent his evenings in the hospitable homes of an English colony whose kindness is unequalled anywhere.
I swore by all that was holy that I didn't know what they were talking about. Then Yaunie and Patrovish asked them in Russian to have some refreshment aboard my ship, and they kicked up a devil of a row when they found you had gone without saying good-bye. Yaunie swore it was to cheat the pilotage, and Patrovish said he couldn't have believed it of you.
"What's to be done I don' know what you call the other. I say, get the steamer loaded quick and away. I don' tink trouble, but O Chresto! his tong go like steam-winch, and you much better Black Sea dan here." "Very excellent advice, Yaunie. Now let us go on deck." A sudden inspiration came to the captain, which caused him to exclaim "Yaunie, I'll ask him to eat with us.
He then jumped aboard his vessel, and invited the trusty pilot to follow him so that they might work out a scheme that would thwart any possibility of a raid being made on the Claverhouse. He prided himself on being fertile in strategy, and certainly his notions were not those of an ordinary person. His confidences were given to Yaunie without any reserve.
Yaunie did not quite understand all that was said, but knew it meant some form of obliquy, and replied, "Yes, and I hope so too." As soon as Farquarson had finished eating, he straightway came to the state-room and assured his host that he never remembered enjoying a breakfast so much. "Let's have a cigar," said he, "to soothe my nerves a bit." This was given him.
"I must speak with him at once," said Yaunie. The captain, overhearing the conversation, called out, "All right, come to my room." "Well, Yaunie, what news this morning?" asked the captain. "Ah, it is very bad news," replied Yaunie. "That fool Farquarson," pointing to where the other steamer lay, "speaks all the time about what happened when you went from the port without permission.
You swagger off with other people's country and say, 'This mine. You like old J b and G d; they speak all the time same as you. English, English, everyting English! an' I say what for you stay? I Greek, an' I stay because Russia better for me." This was said partly in jest and partly in good-natured earnestness, for Yaunie was a student of English characteristics.
After expressing a few unreal excuses for their apparent rudeness, they were prevailed upon to go into the state-room, where the captain solemnly conveyed to Yaunie that he never thought he would live to have imposed upon him such humiliation. "I hope the brute will have an apoplectic fit!" said he.
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