semi-consciousness by sombody, who must
have previously sounded the sleep of the others,
touching his shoulder, and then as the Foretopman Billy
raised his head, breathing into his ear
in a quick whisper, "Slip into the weather lee
fore-chains, Billy; there is something in
the wind. Quick D'ont speak. Quick,
I will meet you there"; and disappeared.
Now Billy like sundry other
essentially goodnatured ones fellows had some of the weaknesses
that pertain to inseparable from essential good nature; and among
these was a reluctance, or rather almost an incapacity of plumply repellingly
curtly saying no to an abrupt proposition
not obviously absurd , on the face of it, or nor nor obviously unfriendly, nor iniquitous .
nor made in any unfriendly way.
And being of warm blood, had he had not As little did he have the cold phlegm silen to
tacitly to negative it any proposition by silent unresponsive inaction. Presently he was stirred into
semi-consciousness by sombody, who must
have previously sounded the sleep of the others,
touching his shoulder, and then as the Foretopman Billy
raised his head, breathing into his ear
in a quick whisper, "Slip into the weather lee
fore-chains, Billy; there is something in
the wind. Quick D'ont speak. Quick,
I will meet you there"; and disappeared.
Now Billy like sundry other
essentially goodnatured ones fellows had some of the weaknesses
that pertain to inseparable from essential good nature; and among
these was a reluctance, or rather almost an incapacity of plumply repellingly
curtly saying no to an abrupt proposition
not obviously absurd , on the face of it, or nor nor obviously unfriendly, nor iniquitous .
nor made in any unfriendly way.
And being of warm blood, had he had not As little did he have the cold phlegm silen to
tacitly to negative it any proposition by silent unresponsive inaction. Presently he was stirred into
Transcribed by: John Bryant