2/24 His news is that the French county is gone to sea, as I has just told you, gentlemen." "Can it be possible that Bunting has brought any such tidings here! Harkee, Galleygo; desire Mr.Bunting to walk up; and then see that you behave yourself as is decent in a house of mourning." "Ay-ay-sir. I can put on as grievous a look as the best on 'em, and if they wishes to see sorrow becomingly, and ship-shape, let them study my conduct and countenance. We has all seen dead men afore now, gentlemen, as we all knows. When we fou't Mounsheer Graveland, (Gravelin,) we had forty-seven slain, besides the hurt that lived to tell their own pain; and when we had the--" "Go to the devil, Master Galleygo, and desire Mr.Bunting to walk up stairs," cried Sir Gervaise, impatiently. |