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Updated: June 16, 2025
In the palm of his right hand, the jar was ready; and his heart thrilled, and his voice choked as he began to speak. 'Mr Hattwater, said he, 'I don't know if ever you 'ad a mother... 'I can set your mind at rest: I had, returned Attwater; 'and henceforth, if I might venture to suggest it, her name need not recur in our communications.
'Well, one got the law after a fashion, said Attwater. 'One had to be a number of things. It was sometimes rather a bore. 'I should smile! said Davis. 'Rather lively, I should think! 'I dare say we mean the same thing, said Attwater. 'However, one way or another, one got it knocked into their heads that they MUST work, and they DID... until the Lord took them!
WILLIAM JOHN ATTWATER, ESQ., SIR': he reiterated. And the captain at last beginning half mechanically to move his pen, the dictation proceeded: It is with feelings of shyme and 'artfelt contrition that I approach you after the yumiliatin' events of last night. Our Mr 'Errick has left the ship, and will have doubtless communicated to you the nature of our 'opes.
"A hundred and twelve shillings in London, and the freight to Valparaiso, and on again," said Attwater. "It strikes one as really not a bad fluid." "A 'undred and twelve!" murmured the clerk, relishing the wine and the figures in a common ecstasy: "O my!" "So glad you like it," said Attwater. "Help yourself, Mr. Whish, and keep the bottle by you."
"There is very little to be done with that," said Attwater. "And yet the description hardly strikes one as exhaustive." "O, what does it matter?" cried Herrick. "Here I am. I am broken crockery; I am a burst drum; the whole of my life is gone to water; I have nothing left that I believe in, except my living horror of myself. Why do I come to you?
But understand: if ever I see any of you again, it is another matter, and you shall eat a bullet. And now take yourself off. March! and as you value what you call your life, keep your hands up as you go!" The captain remained as he was, his hands up, his mouth open: mesmerised with fury. "March!" said Attwater. "One two three!" And Davis turned and passed slowly away.
And I could have blushed for you myself, to see a man, a gentleman, with these two vulgar wolves. Herrick faced him with a thrill. 'Wolves? he repeated. 'I said wolves and vulgar wolves, said Attwater. 'Do you know that today, when I came on board, I trembled? 'You concealed it well, stammered Herrick. 'A habit of mine, said Attwater.
'Hullo! cried Herrick, who now saw for the first time the fourth survivor of the pestilence, and was startled by the recollection of the captain's orders. 'Yes, said Attwater, 'the whole colony lives about the house, what's left of it. We are all afraid of devils, if you please! and Taniera and she sleep in the front parlour, and the other boy on the verandah. 'She is pretty, said Herrick.
"Not in your sense, I am afraid," said Herrick. "I never argue with young atheists or habitual drunkards," said Attwater flippantly. "Let us go across the island to the outer beach." It was but a little way, the greatest width of that island scarce exceeding a furlong, and they walked gently. Herrick was like one in a dream.
'Come and wash your hands, said Attwater, and led the way into a clean, matted room with a cot bed, a safe, or shelf or two of books in a glazed case, and an iron washing-stand. Presently he cried in the native, and there appeared for a moment in the doorway a plump and pretty young woman with a clean towel.
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