I fell in with an elderly woman calling herself Giuntotardi--which is regular built Italian, isn't it, sir ?" "That it is--but, you speak the language, I believe, Clinch ?" "Why, sir, I've been drifting about the world so long, that I speak a little of everything, finding it convenient when I stand in need of victuals and drink.

The old lady on the hill and I overhauled a famous yarn between us, sir.

It seems she has a niece and a brother at Naples, who ought to have been back night before last; and she was in lots of tribulation about them, wanting to know if our ship had seen anything of the rovers." "By George, Clinch, you were on the soundings there, had you but known it! Our prisoner has been in that part of the world, and we might get some clue to his manoeuvres, by questioning the old woman closely.

I hope you parted good friends ?" "The best in the world, Captain Cuffe.

No one that feeds and lodges _me_ well, need dread me as an enemy!" "I'll warrant it! That's the reason you are so loyal, Clinch ?" The hard, red face of the master's mate worked a little, and, though he could not well look all sorts of colors, he looked all ways but in his captain's eye.