Now, just after sundown, when all my work was over and I was on my way to my berth, it occurred to me that I should like an apple.
It’s the glory of the sea that has turned my head.
All day he hung round the cove or upon the cliffs with a brass telescope;.
Here he lies where he longs to be, home is the sailor, home from sea, and the hunter, home from the hill.
You’d be as rich as kings if you could find it, and you know it’s here, and you stand there skulking. There wasn’t one of you dared face Bill, and I did it – a blind man! And I’m to lose my chance for you! I’m to be a poor, crawling beggar, sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach! If you had the pluck of a weevil in a biscuit you would catch them still.
How that personage haunted my dreams, I need scarcely tell you.
If the conduct of the men had been alarming in the boat, it became truly threatening when they had come aboard. They lay about the deck, growling together in talk. The slightest order was received with a black look, and grudgingly and carelessly obeyed. Even the honest hands must have caught the infection, for there was not one man aboard to mend another. Mutiny, it was plain, hung over us like a thundercloud.
Sir Oliver – that knows more of law than honesty – I.
The best things in life are nearest, breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet.
I never seen good come out of goodness.
I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.
He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something down-right detestable. I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn’t specify the point.
Ah, it’s an ill-conscience that’s such an enemy to rest!
The great affair is to move.
No class of man is altogether bad, but each has its own faults and virtues.
This I said in the Irish way, about which there is allowed to be something very engaging. It’s a remarkable thing, and a testimony to the love with which our nation is regarded, that this address scarce ever fails in a handsome fellow. I cannot tell how often I have seen a private soldier escape the horse, or a beggar wheedle out a good alms, by a touch of the brogue.
Certainly he took no pains to hide his thoughts, and certainly I read them like print. In the immediate nearness of the gold, all else had been forgotten: his promise and the doctor’s warning were both things of the past, and I could not doubt that he hoped to seize upon the treasure, find and board the Hispaniola under cover of night, cut every honest throat about that island, and sail away as he had at first intended, laden with crimes and riches.
If you would on’y lay your course, and a p’int to windward, you would ride in carriages, you would. But not you! I know you. You’ll have your mouthful of rum tomorrow, and go hang.
Well, but, good Master Richard,” resumed Matcham, “an ye like maids so little, y’ are no true natural man; for God made them twain by intention, and brought true love into the world, to be man’s hope and woman’s comfort.
Indeed, that is the first principle of vengeance; and hatred betrayed is hatred impotent.