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"Is that a' I am good for now?" said the indignant matron. "I was good for mair than that in the great fight between our folk and Patrico Salmon's; if I had not helped you with these very fambles (holding up her hands), Jean Baillie would have frummagem'd you, [*Throttled you] ye feckless do-little!"
There was here another laugh at the expense of the hero who had received this amazon's assistance.
"Here, mother," said one of the sailors, "here's a cup of the right for you, and never mind that bully-huff."
Meg drank the spirits, and, withdrawing herself from further conversation, sat down before the spot where Brown lay bid, in such a posture that it would have been difficult for any one to have approached it without her rising. The men, however, showed no disposition to disturb her.
They closed around the fire, and held deep consultation together; but the low tone in which they spoke, and the cant language which they used, prevented Brown from understanding much of their conversation. He gathered in general, that they expressed great indignation against some individual. "He shall have his gruel,"--said one, and then whispered something very low into the ear of his comrade.
"I'll have nothing to do with that," said the other
"Are you turned hen-hearted, Jack?"
"No, by G-d, no more than yourself,--but I won't--it was something like that stopped all the trade fifteen or twenty years ago you have heard of the 'Loup'?"
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