His Other Wife: A Novel — page 192: what you’re looking at

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184 ON BOARD THE MADCAP. as fast as possible until the storm is past. This wretched hulk would never weather the equinoctial tempest that is too plainly rising.” ‘«She’s an ill-looking bark, I grant you; but the devil himself couldn’t sink her, unless he first made a hole in her bottom.” This answer came from a swart, evil-visaged seaman, | who wore the dress of a Minorcan sailor, and the coun- tenance of a Spanish cut-throat. The man to whom he spoke was, without doubt, a gentleman and an aristocrat. He replied to the sailor : ‘«The reefs along this treacherous coast are like enough to make the hole in her bottom, and, as for the devil’s part in the Madcap’s fortunes, I think he has turned that over to you and your confrere, captain.” ‘‘In that case, I must stand high in favor as a faithful steward to his infernal lordship, considering the little job the Madcap and we are doing for yourself at present, sir.” The gentleman made no rejoinder, but again lifted the glass and gazed upon the white, precipitous headland of the lonely island. The Minorcan turned to his companion—a short, stout man, with gray hair, and a grizzly mustache to match it, but with a good-natured and almost kindly aspect, whose eye, nevertheless, glittered alertly under thick, stubby brows, and betokened a temper easily roused and less easily laid to rest—and said : ~ “What think you, mate?” Comicbooks =} iGO