We'll call that boat the Lady F., or the Mrs.M., which ever you like;"-- and then Aby laughed, for the conceit pleased him--"but the hearnings of that boat should be divided hequally.

Ain't that about the ticket?
heh, Sir Thomas?
Come, don't be down on your luck.

A little quiet talkee-talkee between you and me'll soon put this small matter on a right footing." "What is it you want?
tell me at once," at last groaned the poor man.
"Well now, that's something like; and I'll tell you what we want.
There are only two of us you know, the governor and I; and very lonely we are, for it's a sad thing for a man to have the wife of his bosom taken from him." Then there was a groan which struck even Aby's ear; but Sir Thomas was still alive and listening, and so he went on.
"This property here, Sir Thomas, is a good twelve thousand a year.

I know hall about it as though I'd been 'andling it myself for the last ten years.

And a great deal of cutting there is in twelve thousand a year.