Роберт Льюис Стивенсон

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it, before they should go aboard the schooner on a visit of inspection.

      Long John told the story from first to last, with a great deal of spirit and the most perfect truth. “That was how it were, now, weren't it, Hawkins?” he would say, now and again, and I could always bear him entirely out.

      The two gentlemen regretted that Black Dog had got away, but we all agreed there was nothing to be done, and after he had been complimented, Long John took up his crutch and departed.

      “All hands aboard by four this afternoon!” shouted the squire after him.

      “Ay, ay, sir,” cried the cook, in the passage.

      “Well, squire,” said Doctor Livesey, “I don't put much faith in your discoveries, as a general thing, but I will say this – John Silver suits me.”

      “That man's a perfect trump,” declared the squire.

      “And now,” added the doctor, “Jim may come on board with us, may he not?”

      “To be sure he may,” said the squire. “Take your hat, Hawkins, and we'll see the ship.”

      Chapter IX

      Powder and Arms

      The Hispaniola lay some way out, and we went under the figureheads and around the sterns of many other ships, and their cables sometimes grated beneath our keel, and sometimes swung above us. At last, however, we swung alongside, and were met and saluted as we stepped aboard by the mate, Mr. Arrow, a brown old sailor, with earrings in his ears and a squint. He and the squire were very thick and friendly, but I soon observed that things were not the same between Mr. Trelawney and the captain.

      This last was a sharp-looking man, who seemed angry with everything on board, and was soon to tell us why, for we had hardly got down into the cabin when a sailor followed us.

      “Captain Smollett, sir, axing to speak with you,” said he.

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