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041 - Chapter 19 · Pirate

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Speaker 1: Chapter nineteen of the Pirate by Sir Walter Scott. This
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Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Read by Dion
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Speaker 1: Jine's Salt Lake City, Utah. Now, Emma, now the last reflection,
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Speaker 1: Make what thou wouldst follow what thou must forsake by
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Speaker 1: our ill omened stars and adverse heaven. No middle object
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Speaker 1: to thy choice is given, Henry and Emma. The sun
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Speaker 1: was high in heaven. The boats were busily fetching off
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Speaker 1: from the shore the promised supply of provisions and water, which,
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Speaker 1: as many fishing skiffs were employed in the service, were
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Speaker 1: got on board with unexpected speed and stowed away by
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Speaker 1: the crew of the sloop with equal dispatch. All worked
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Speaker 1: with goodwill, for all save Cleveland himself, were weary of
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Speaker 1: a coast where every moment increased their danger, and where
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Speaker 1: which they esteemed a worse misfortune. There was no booty
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Speaker 1: to be. One bunch and Derek took the immediate direction
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Speaker 1: of this duty, while Cleveland, walking the deck alone and
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Speaker 1: in silence, only interfered from time to time to give
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Speaker 1: some order which circumstances required, and then relapsed into his
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Speaker 1: own sad reflections. There are two sorts of men whom
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Speaker 1: situations of guilt, terror, and commotion bring forward as prominent agents.
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Speaker 1: The first are spirits, so naturally molded and fitted for
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Speaker 1: deeds of horror, that they stalk forth from their lurking places,
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Speaker 1: like actual demons, to work in their native element. As
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Speaker 1: the hideous apparition of the bearded man came forth at
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Speaker 1: Versailles on the memorable fifth October seventeen eighty nine, the
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Speaker 1: delighted executioner of the victims delivered up to him by
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Speaker 1: a bloodthirsty rebbel But Cleveland belonged to the second class
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Speaker 1: of these unfortunate beings, who are involved in evil rather
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Speaker 1: by the concurrence of external circumstances than by natural inclination,
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Speaker 1: being indeed one in whom his first engaging in this
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Speaker 1: lawless mode of life as the follower of his father,
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Speaker 1: nay perhaps even his pursuing it as his father's avenger,
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Speaker 1: carried with it something of mitigation and apology. One also,
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Speaker 1: who often considered his guilty situation with horror, and had
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Speaker 1: made repeated, though ineffectual efforts to escape from it. Such
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Speaker 1: thoughts of remorse were now rolling in his mind, and
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Speaker 1: he may be forgiven if recollections of Menna, mingled with
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Speaker 1: and aided them. He looked around too, on his mates,
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Speaker 1: and profligate and hardened as he knew them to be.
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Speaker 1: He could not think of their pain the penalty of
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Speaker 1: his obstinacy. We shall be ready to sail with the
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Speaker 1: ebb Tide, he said to himself. Why should I endanger
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Speaker 1: these men by detaining them till the hour of danger
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Speaker 1: predicted by that singular woman shall arrive. Her intelligence, howsoever acquired,
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Speaker 1: has been always strangely accurate, and her warning was as
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Speaker 1: solemn as if a mother were to apprize an erring
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Speaker 1: son of his crimes and of his roaching punishment. Besides,
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Speaker 1: what chance is there that I can again see Minna?
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Speaker 1: She is at Kirkwall, doubtless, And to hold my course
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Speaker 1: thither would be to steer right upon the rocks. No,
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Speaker 1: I will not endanger these poor fellows. I will sail
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Speaker 1: with the ebb Tide on the desolate Hebrides, or on
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Speaker 1: the northwest coast of Ireland. I will leave the vessel
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Speaker 1: and return hither in some disguise. Yet why should I return,
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Speaker 1: since it will perhaps be only to see Minna, the
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Speaker 1: bride of Mordaunt. No let the vessel sail with this
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Speaker 1: ebb tide without me, I will abide and take my fate.
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Speaker 1: His meditations were here interrupted by Jack Bunch, who, hailing
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Speaker 1: him noble Captain, said they were ready to sail when
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Speaker 1: he pleased. When you please, Bunch, for I shall leave
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Speaker 1: the command with you and go ashore at stromness, said Cleveland.
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Speaker 1: You shall do no such matter, by Heaven, answered Bunch.
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Speaker 1: The command with me, truly, And how the devil am
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Speaker 1: I to get the crew to obey me? Why even
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Speaker 1: Dick Fletcher rides rusty on me? Now? And then you
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Speaker 1: know well enough that without you we shall be all
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Speaker 1: at each other's throats in half an hour. And if
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Speaker 1: you desert us, what a rope's? And does it signify
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Speaker 1: whether we are destroyed by the King's cruisers or by
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Speaker 1: each other? Come, Come, noble Captain. There are black eyed
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Speaker 1: girls enough in the world. But where will you find
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Speaker 1: so tight a sea boat as the little Favorite here,
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Speaker 1: and as she is with a set of tearing lads,
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Speaker 1: fit to disturb the peace of all the world and
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Speaker 1: rule it when'tis wildest. You are a precious fool, Jack Bunch,
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Speaker 1: said Cleveland, half angry, and in despite of himself half
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Speaker 1: diverted by the false tones and exaggerated gesture of the
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Speaker 1: stage struck pirate. It may be so, noble captain, answered Bunch,
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Speaker 1: And it may be that I have my comrades in
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Speaker 1: my folly. Here are you now going to play all
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Speaker 1: for love and the world well lost? And yet you
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Speaker 1: cannot bear a harmless bounce in blank verse. Well, I
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Speaker 1: can talk prose for the matter, for I have news
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Speaker 1: enough to tell, and strange news too. Ay am stirring
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Speaker 1: news to boot well, prithee, deliver them to speak thine
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Speaker 1: own cant like a man of this world. The strongness
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Speaker 1: fishers will accept nothing for their provisions and trouble, said Bunch.
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Speaker 1: There is a wonder for you, And for what reason,
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Speaker 1: I pray? Said Cleveland. It is the first time I
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Speaker 1: have ever heard of cash being refused at a seaport. True,
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Speaker 1: they commonly lay the charges on as thick as if
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Speaker 1: they were culking. But here is the matter. The owner
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Speaker 1: of the brig Yonder, the father of your fair Imoinda,
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Speaker 1: stands paymaster by way of thanks for the civility with
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Speaker 1: which we treated his daughters, and that we may not
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Speaker 1: meet our do as he calls it on these shores.
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Speaker 1: It is like the frank hearted old u Dollar, said Cleveland.
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Speaker 1: But is he at Stromness. I thought he was to
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Speaker 1: have crossed the island for Kirkwall. He did so purpose,
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Speaker 1: said Bunch, But more folks than King Duncan changed the
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Speaker 1: course of their voyage. He was no sooner ashore than
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Speaker 1: he was met with by a meddling old witch of
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Speaker 1: these parts, who has her finger in every man's pie,
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Speaker 1: and by her counsel. He changed his purpose of going
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Speaker 1: to Kirkwall, and lies at anchor for the present in
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Speaker 1: yonder white house, that you may see with your glass
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Speaker 1: up the lake Yonder. I am told the old woman
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Speaker 1: clubbed also to pay for the sloops stores. Why she
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Speaker 1: should shell out the boards? I cannot conceive an idea
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Speaker 1: except that she is said to be a witch, and
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Speaker 1: may be friend us as so many devils. But who
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Speaker 1: told you all this? Said Cleveland, without using his spyglass
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Speaker 1: or seeming so much interested in the news as his
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Speaker 1: comrade had expected. Why, replied Bunch, I made a trip
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Speaker 1: ashore this morning to the village, and had a can
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Speaker 1: with an old acquaintance who had been sent by Master
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Speaker 1: Troyle to look after matters, And I fished it all
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Speaker 1: out of him, and more too than I am desirous
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Speaker 1: of telling you, noble captain. And who is your intelligen sir,
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Speaker 1: said Cleveland. Has he got no name? Why he is
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Speaker 1: an old fiddling foppish acquaintance of mine called Holcrow. If
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Speaker 1: you must know, said Bunch. Holcrow, echoed Cleveland, his eyes
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Speaker 1: sparkling with surprise. Clod Holcrow. Why he went ashore at
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Speaker 1: Incaness with Minna and her sister? Where are they? Why?
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Speaker 1: That is just what I did not want to tell you,
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Speaker 1: replied the confidante. Yet hang me if I can help it,
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Speaker 1: for I cannot bulk a fine situation. That start had
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Speaker 1: a fine effect. Oh aye, And the spyglass is turned
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Speaker 1: on the house of Stennis. Now well yonder they are,
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Speaker 1: it must be confessed indifferently, well guarded too. Some of
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Speaker 1: the old Witch's people are come over from that mountain
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Speaker 1: of an island hoy as they call it. And the
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Speaker 1: old gentleman has got some fellows under arms himself. But
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Speaker 1: what of all that, noble Captain, give you but the word,
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Speaker 1: and we snap up the wenches to night, clap them
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Speaker 1: under hatches. Man the Capstern. By daybreak up topsails and
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Speaker 1: sail with the morning tide. You sicken me with your villainy,
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Speaker 1: said Cleveland, turning away from him. Umph villainy, and sicken you,
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Speaker 1: said Bunch. Now pray what have I said? But what
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Speaker 1: has been done a thousand times? My gentlemen of fortune,
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Speaker 1: like ourselves, mention it not again, said Cleveland. Then took
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Speaker 1: a turn along the deck in deep meditation, and coming
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Speaker 1: back to Bunch, took him by the hand and said, Jack,
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Speaker 1: I will see her once more with all my heart,
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Speaker 1: said Bunch, sullenly. Once more will I see her? And
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Speaker 1: it may be to abjure at her feet this cursed trade,
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Speaker 1: and expiate my offenses at the gallows, said Bunch, completing
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Speaker 1: the sentence with all my heart. Confess and be hanged
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Speaker 1: is a most reverend proverb. Nay, but, dear Jack, said Cleveland.
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Speaker 1: Dear Jack, answered Bunch, in the same sullen tone. A
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Speaker 1: dear sight you have been to, dear Jack, But hold
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Speaker 1: your own course. I have done with caring for you
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Speaker 1: forever I should but sicken you with my villainous counsels.
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Speaker 1: Now must I soothe this silly fellow as if he
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Speaker 1: were a spoiled child, said Cleveland, speaking at Bunch, but
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Speaker 1: not to him. And yet he has sense enough and
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Speaker 1: bravery enough too. And one would think kindness enough to
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Speaker 1: know that men don't pick their words during a gale
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Speaker 1: of wind. Why that's true, Clement, said Bunch. And there
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Speaker 1: is my hand upon it, and now I think upon it.
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Speaker 1: You shall have your last interview, for it's out of
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Speaker 1: my line to prevent a parting scene. And what signifies
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Speaker 1: a tide. We can sail by tomorrow's ebb as well
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Speaker 1: as by this. Cleveland sighed, for Norna's prediction rushed on
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Speaker 1: his mind, but the opportunity of a last meeting with
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Speaker 1: Minna was too tempting to be resigned, either for presentiment
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Speaker 1: or prediction. I will go presently ashore to the place
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Speaker 1: where they all are, said Bunch. And the payment of
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Speaker 1: these stores shall serve me for a pretext. And I
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Speaker 1: will carry any letters or message from you to Minna
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Speaker 1: with the dexterity of a valet de chamber. But they
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Speaker 1: have armed men. You may be in danger, said Cleveland.
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Speaker 1: Not a whit, Not a whit, replied Bunch. I protected
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Speaker 1: the Wenches when they were in my power. I warrant
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Speaker 1: their father will neither wrong me, nor see me wronged.
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Speaker 1: You say true, said Cleveland, it is not in his nature.
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Speaker 1: I will instantly write a note to Minna. And he
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Speaker 1: ran down to the case Heaven for that purpose, where
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Speaker 1: he wasted much paper. Ere with a trembling hand and
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Speaker 1: throbbing heart, he achieved such a letter, as he hoped,
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Speaker 1: might prevail on Minna to permit him a farewell meeting.
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Speaker 1: On the succeeding morning. His adherent bunch in the meanwhile
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Speaker 1: sought out Fletcher, of whose support to second any motion whatever,
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Speaker 1: he accounted himself perfectly sure, and followed by his trustee Satellite.
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Speaker 1: He intruded himself on the awful presence of Hawkins, the boatswain,
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Speaker 1: and Derek the Quartermaster, who were regaling themselves with a
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Speaker 1: can of rumbo after the fatiguing duty of the day.
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Speaker 1: Here comes he can tell us, said Derek, So, Master Lieutenant,
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Speaker 1: for so we must call you now, I think let
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Speaker 1: us have a peep into your council's When will the
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Speaker 1: anchor be a trip when it pleases heaven Master Quartermaster
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Speaker 1: answered bunch, for I know no more than the stern post.
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Speaker 1: Why damn, my buttons, said Derrick, do we not weigh
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Speaker 1: this tide or tomorrow's tide at farthest, said the boatswain.
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Speaker 1: Why what have we been slaving the whole company for
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Speaker 1: to get all these stores aboard? Gentlemen, said Bunch, you
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Speaker 1: are to know that Cupid has laid our captain on board,
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Speaker 1: carried the vessel, and nailed down his wits under hatches.
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Speaker 1: What sort of place stuff is all this, said the
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Speaker 1: boatswain gruffly. If you have anything to tell us, say
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Speaker 1: it in a word like a man, how some duff,
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Speaker 1: said Fletcher. I always think Jack Bunch speaks like a
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Speaker 1: man and acts like a man too, And so do
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Speaker 1: you see hold your peace, dear dick, best of bully bucks,
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Speaker 1: be silent, said Bunch. Gentlemen, in one word, the captain
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Speaker 1: is in love. Why now only think of that? Said
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Speaker 1: the boatswain. Not but that I have been in love
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Speaker 1: as often as any man when the ship was laid up. Well,
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Speaker 1: but continued Bunch, Captain Cleveland is in love. Yes, Prince
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Speaker 1: Valsius is in love. And though that's the cue for
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Speaker 1: laughing on the stage, it is no laughing matter here.
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Speaker 1: He expects to meet the girl tomorrow for the last time,
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Speaker 1: And that we all know leads to another meeting, and another,
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Speaker 1: and so on till the halcion is down on us,
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Speaker 1: and then we may look for more kicks than halfpence. Bye,
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Speaker 1: said the boatswain, with a sounding oath. We'll have a
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Speaker 1: mutiny and not allow him to go ashore, eh Derrick,
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Speaker 1: and the best way too, said Dereck. What do you
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Speaker 1: think of it, Jack Bunch, said Fletcher, in whose ears
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Speaker 1: this counsel sounded very sagely, but who still bent a
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Speaker 1: wistful look upon his companion. Why look, ye, gentlemen, said Bunch.
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Speaker 1: I will mutiny none and stap my victuals if any
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Speaker 1: of you shall, Why then I won't for one, said Fletcher.
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Speaker 1: But what are we to do since howsome davor stopp
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Speaker 1: her your jaw dick? Will you? Said Bunch? Now, boatswain,
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Speaker 1: I am partly of your mind that the captain must
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Speaker 1: be brought to reason by a little wholesome force. But
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Speaker 1: you all know he has the spirit of a lion
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Speaker 1: and will do nothing unless he is allowed to hold
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Speaker 1: on his own course. Well, I'll go ashore and make
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Speaker 1: this appointment. The girl comes to the rendezvous in the morning,
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Speaker 1: and the captain goes ashore. We take a good boat's
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Speaker 1: crew with us to row against tide and current, and
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Speaker 1: we will be ready at the signal to jump ashore
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Speaker 1: and bring off the captain and the girl, whether they
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Speaker 1: will or no. The pet child will not quarrel with us,
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Speaker 1: since we bring off his whirligig along with him. And
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Speaker 1: if he is still fractious, why we will weigh anchor
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Speaker 1: without his orders and let him come to his senses
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Speaker 1: at leisure and know his friends another time. Why this
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Speaker 1: has a face with it, Master Derek, said Hawkins. Jack
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Speaker 1: Bunch is always right, said Fletcher. Have some devor. The
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Speaker 1: captain will shoot some of us, that is certain. Hold
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Speaker 1: your jaw, Dick, said Bunch. Pray, who the devil cares?
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Speaker 1: Do you think whether you are shot or hanged? Why
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Speaker 1: it don't much arguefy for the matter of that, replied Dick,
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Speaker 1: have some devor? Be quiet, I tell you, said his
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Speaker 1: inexorable patron, And hear me out. We will take him
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Speaker 1: at unawares, so that he shall neither have time to
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Speaker 1: use cutlass nor pops. And I myself, for the dear
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Speaker 1: love I bear him, will be the first to lay
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Speaker 1: him on his back. There is a nice tight going
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Speaker 1: bit of a pennis that is a consort of this
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Speaker 1: chase of the captain's. If I have an opportunity, I'll
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Speaker 1: snap her up on my own account. Yes, yes, said Derek.
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Speaker 1: Let you alone for keeping on the lookout for your
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Speaker 1: comforts faith Nay, said Bunch. I only snatch at them
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Speaker 1: when they come fairly in my way, or are purchased
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Speaker 1: by dint of my own wit. And none of you
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Speaker 1: could have fallen on such a plan as this. We
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Speaker 1: shall have the captain with us head, hand and heart
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Speaker 1: and all, besides making a scene fit to finish a comedy.
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Speaker 1: So I will go ashore to make the appointment. And
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Speaker 1: do you possess some of the gentlemen who are still
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Speaker 1: sober and fit to be trusted with the knowledge of
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Speaker 1: our intentions. Bunch, with his friend Fletcher, departed accordingly, and
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Speaker 1: the two veteran pirates remained looking at each other in
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Speaker 1: silence until the boatswain spoke at last, blow me, Derek,
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Speaker 1: if I like these two daffi dandily young fellows, they
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Speaker 1: are not the two true breed. Why there are no
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Speaker 1: more like the rovers I have known than this sloop
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Speaker 1: is to a first rate. Why there was old sharp
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Speaker 1: that read prayers to his ship's company every Sunday. What
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Speaker 1: would he have said to have heard it proposed to
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Speaker 1: bring two wenches on board? And what would tough old
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Speaker 1: Blackbeard have said, answered his companion, if they had expected
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Speaker 1: to keep them to themselves. They deserved to be made
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Speaker 1: to walk the plank for their impudence, or to be
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Speaker 1: tied back to back and set a diving And I
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Speaker 1: care not how soon I But who is to command
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Speaker 1: the ship? Then, said Hawkins? Why what ails you at
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Speaker 1: old golf? Answered Derek. Why he has sucked the monkey
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Speaker 1: so long and so often, said the boatswain, that the
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Speaker 1: best of him is buffed. He is little better than
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Speaker 1: an old woman when he is sober, and he is
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Speaker 1: roaring mad when he is drunk. We have had enough
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Speaker 1: of golf. Why then, what do you say to yourself
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Speaker 1: or to me, boatswain, demanded the quartermaster. I am content
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Speaker 1: to toss up for it rot it no, answered the boatswain.
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Speaker 1: After a moment's consideration, if we were within reach of
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Speaker 1: the trade winds, we might either of us make a shift.
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Speaker 1: But it will take all Cleveland's navigation to get us there.
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Speaker 1: And so I think there is nothing like Bunch's project
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Speaker 1: for the present hark. He calls for the boat. I
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Speaker 1: must go on deck and have her lowered for his honor,
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Speaker 1: damn his eyes. The boat was lowered accordingly, made its
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Speaker 1: voyage up the lake with safety, and landed Bunch within
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Speaker 1: a few hundred yards of the old mansion house of Stennis.
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Speaker 1: Upon arriving in front of the house, he found that
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Speaker 1: hasty measures had been taken to put it in a
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Speaker 1: state of defense, the lower windows being barricaded, with places
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Speaker 1: left for use of musketry, and a ship gun being
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Speaker 1: placed so as to command the entrance, which was besides
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Speaker 1: guarded by two sentinels. Bunch demanded admission at the gate,
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Speaker 1: which was briefly and unceremoniously refused, with an exhortation to
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Speaker 1: him at the same time to be gone about his
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Speaker 1: business before worse came of it, as he continued, however, importunately,
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Speaker 1: to insist on seeing someone of the family, and stated
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Speaker 1: his business to be of the most urgent nature. Claude
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Speaker 1: Holcrow at length appeared, and with more peevishness than belonged
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Speaker 1: to his usual manner, that admirer of glorious John expostulated
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Speaker 1: with his old acquaintance upon his pertinacious folly you are,
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Speaker 1: he said, like foolish moths fluttering about a candle which
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Speaker 1: is sure at last to consume you. And you, said, Bunch,
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Speaker 1: are a set of stingless drones, whom we can smoke
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Speaker 1: out of your defenses at our pleasure with half a
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Speaker 1: dozen of hand grenades. Smoke a fool's head, said Holcrow.
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Speaker 1: Take my advice and mind your own matters, or there
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Speaker 1: will be those upon you will smoke you to purpose.
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Speaker 1: Either begone, or tell me in two words what you want,
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Speaker 1: for you are like to receive no welcome here, save
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Speaker 1: from a blunderbuss. We are men enough of ourselves, And
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Speaker 1: here is young Mordaunt Mertown, come from hoy whom your
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Speaker 1: captains so nearly murdered tush Man, said Bunch. He did,
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Speaker 1: but let out a little malapert blood. We want no
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Speaker 1: such phlebotomy here, said Claude Holcrow. And besides, your patient
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Speaker 1: turns out to be nearer allied to us than either
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Speaker 1: you or we thought of. So you may think how
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Speaker 1: little welcome the captain or any of his crew are
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Speaker 1: like to be here? Well, but what if I bring
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Speaker 1: money for the stores sent on board? Keep it till
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Speaker 1: it is asked of you, said Holcrow. There are two
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Speaker 1: bad paymasters, he that pays too soon and he that
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Speaker 1: does not pay at all. Well, then let me at
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Speaker 1: least give our thanks to the donor, said Bunch. Keep
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Speaker 1: them too, till they are asked for, answered the poet.
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Speaker 1: So this is all the welcome I have of you,
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Speaker 1: for old Acquaintance's sake, said Bunch. Why what can I
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Speaker 1: do for you, Master Altamont, said Holcrow, somewhat moved. If
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Speaker 1: young Mordaunt had had his own will, he would have
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Speaker 1: welcomed you with the red Burgundy number one thousand. For
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Speaker 1: God's sake, be gone else the stage direction will be
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Speaker 1: and her guard and seize Altamont. I will not give
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Speaker 1: you the trouble, said Bunch, but will make my exit instantly.
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Speaker 1: Stay a moment, I had almost forgot that I have
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Speaker 1: a slip of paper for the tallest of your girls. There,
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Speaker 1: Mina ay Minna is her name. It is a farewell
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Speaker 1: from Captain Cleveland. You cannot refuse to give it her, Ah,
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Speaker 1: poor fellow, said Holcrow. I comprehend, I comprehend farewell fair Armida,
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Speaker 1: midpikes and mid bullets, mid tempests and fire the danger
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Speaker 1: is less than in hopeless desire. Tell me, but this
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Speaker 1: is their poetry in it chalk full to the seal
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Speaker 1: with song, sonnet and elegy, answered Bunch, But let her
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Speaker 1: have it cautiously and secretly, tush Man. Teach me to
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Speaker 1: deliver a billet due me, who have been in the
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Speaker 1: Wits coffee house and have seen, oh, the toasts of
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Speaker 1: the kit Kat club. Minnah shall have it then, for
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Speaker 1: old acquaintance sake, mister Altamont, and for your captain's sake too,
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Speaker 1: who has less of the core of devil about him
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Speaker 1: than his trade requires. There can be no harm in
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Speaker 1: a farewell letter. Farewell then, old boy, forever and a day,
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Speaker 1: said Bunch, and, seizing the poet's hand, gave it so
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Speaker 1: hearty a grip that he left him roaring and shaking
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Speaker 1: his fist like a dog when a hot cinder has
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Speaker 1: fallen on his foot, leaving the rover to return on
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Speaker 1: board the vessel. We remain with the family of Magnus Troil,
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Speaker 1: assembled at their kinsman's mansion of Stennis, where they maintained
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Speaker 1: a constant and careful watch against surprise. Mordaunt Mertown had
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Speaker 1: been received with much kindness by Magnus Troyl when he
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Speaker 1: came to his assistance, with a small party of Norna's
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Speaker 1: dependence placed by her under his command. The U Dollar
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Speaker 1: was easily satisfied that the reports instilled into his ears
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Speaker 1: by the jagger zealous to augment his favor towards his
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Speaker 1: more profitable customer Cleveland by diminishing that of Mertown, were
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Speaker 1: without foundation. They had indeed been confirmed by the good
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Speaker 1: Lady Gloroum and by common Fame, both of whom were
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Speaker 1: pleased to represent Mordaunt Mertown as an arrogant pretender to
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Speaker 1: the favor of the sisters of Burgwestra, who only hesitated
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Speaker 1: sultan like on whom he should bestow the handkerchief. But
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Speaker 1: common Fame Magnus considered was a common liar, and he
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Speaker 1: was sometimes disposed, where scandal was concerned, to regard the
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Speaker 1: good Lady Gloroum as rather an uncommon specimen of the
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Speaker 1: same genus. He therefore received Mordaunt once more into full favor.
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Speaker 1: Listened with much surprise to the claim which Norna laid
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Speaker 1: to the young man's duty, and with no less interest
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Speaker 1: to her intention of surrendering to him the considerable property
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Speaker 1: which she had inherited from her father. Nay, it is
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Speaker 1: even probable that, though he gave no immediate answer to
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Speaker 1: her hints concerning and union betwixt his eldest daughter and
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Speaker 1: her heir, he might think such an alliance recommended as
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Speaker 1: well by the young man's personal merits, as by the
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Speaker 1: chance it gave of reuniting the very large estate which
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Speaker 1: had been divided betwixt his own father and that of Norna.
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Speaker 1: At all events, the u Dollar received his young friend
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Speaker 1: with much kindness, and he and the proprietor of the
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Speaker 1: mansion joined in entrusting to him, as the youngest and
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Speaker 1: most active of the party, the charge of commanding the
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Speaker 1: night watch and relieving the sentinels around the house of Stennis.
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Speaker 1: End of Chapter nineteen