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Mr. Midshipman Easy

CHAPTER XVII
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I won't go on board.

Look'ye, Jack," said Gascoigne, "have you plenty of money ?" "I have twenty doubloons, besides dollars," replied Jack.
"Well, then, we will pretend to be so much alarmed at the result of this duel that we dare not show ourselves lest we should be hung.

I will write a note and send it to Jolliffe, to say that we have hid ourselves until the affair is blown over, and beg him to intercede with the captain and first lieutenant.

I will tell him all the particulars, and refer to the gunner for the truth of it; and then I know that, although we should be punished, they will only laugh.

But I will pretend that Easthupp is killed, and we are frightened out of our lives.


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