I dodged, and it knocked down Father M'Grath, who had just walked behind me in full song.

I knew that it was all over after that, so I sprang over his carcass, and gained the door.

'Good morning to ye all, and better manners to you next time we meet,' cried I, and off I set as fast as I could for the ship.
"I was melancholy enough as I walked back, and thought of what had passed.

'I need not have been in such a confounded hurry,' said I to myself, 'to ask leave, thereby affronting the first lieutenant;' and I was very sorry for what I had said to the priest, for my conscience thumped me very hard at having even pretended that I'd turn Protestant, which I never intended to do, nor never will, but live and die a good Catholic, as all my posterity have done before me, and, as I trust, all my ancestors will for generations to come.

Well, I arrived on board, and the first lieutenant was very savage.