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Treasure Island — Chapter 12 — Page 4

Mr. Trelawney, being a very open-handed gentleman, as we all know, has just asked me a word or two, and as I was able to tell him that every man on board had done his duty, alow and aloft, as I never ask to see it done better, why, he and I and the doctor are going below to the cabin to drink your health and luck, and youll have grog served out for you to drink our health and luck. Ill tell you what I think of this: I think it handsome. And if you think as I do, youll give a good sea-cheer for the gentleman that does it. The cheer followedthat was a matter of course; but it rang out so full and hearty that I confess I could hardly believe these same men were plotting for our blood. One more cheer for Capn Smollett, cried Long John when the first had subsided. And this also was given with a will. On the top of that the three gentlemen went below, and not long after, word was sent forward that Jim Hawkins was wanted in the cabin. I found them all three seated round the table, a bottle of Spanish wine and some raisins before them, and the doctor smoking away, with his wig on his lap, and that, I knew, was a sign that he was agitated.