arms folded leaning against the side of the to away the time till your father comes he said � pray is there much and of about the water side now no said pleasant any � complaints of that sort are sometimes made about and and up that way but who knows how many are true to be sure and it don t seem necessary that s what i say observed pleasant where s the reason for it bless the sailors it ain t as if they ever could keep what they have without it you re right their money may be soon got out of them without violence said the man of course it may said pleasant and then they ship again and get more and the best thing for em too to ship again as soon as ever they can be brought to it they re never so well off as when they re afloat ill tell you why i ask pursued the visitor looking up from the fire i was once beset that way myself and left for dead no said pleasant where did it happen it happened returned the man with a air as he drew his right hand across his chin and dipped the other in the pocket of his rough outer coat it happened somewhere about here as i reckon i don t think it can have been a mile from here u were you drunk asked pleasant i was but not with fair drinking i had not been drinking you understand a did it pleasant with a grave look shook her head that she understood the process but decidedly fair trade is one thing said she but that s another no one has a right to carry on with jack in thai way td the sentiment does you credit retained the man with a grim smile and added in a the more so as i believe it s not father s � yes i had a bad time of it that time i lost everything and bad a sharp struggle for my life weak as i was did yon get the parties punished asked pleasant � a tremendous punishment followed said the man more seriously � but it was not of my bringing about u of whose then asked pleasant the man pointed upward with his forefinger and slowly recovering that hand settled his chin in it again as he looked at the fire bringing her inherited eye to bear upon him pleasant felt more and more uncomfortable his manner was so mysterious so stern so self possessed u said the i am glad punishment followed and i say so fair trade with men gets a bad name though deeds of violence i am as much against deeds of violence being done to men as men can be themselves i am of the same opinion as my mother was when she was living pair trade my mother used to say but no robbery and no blows hi the way of trade miss pleasant would have taken � and indeed did take when she could � as much as thirty shillings a week for board that would be dear at five and likewise conducted the leaving upon principles yet she had that tenderness of conscience and those feelings of humanity that the moment her ideas of trade were she became the seaman s champion even against her father whom she seldom otherwise resisted but she was here interrupted by her father s voice exclaiming angrily now and by her father s hat being heavily flung from his hand and striking her nice accustomed to such occasional of his sense of parental duty pleasant merely wiped her race on her hair which of course had tumbled down before she twisted it up this was another common on the part of f toe ladies of the hole when heated by verbal or m if i believe such a as you was ever learned to speak growled mr stooping to pick up his hat and making a at her with his head and right elbow for he took the delicate subject of in extraordinary and was out of humour too what are you at now ain t you nothing to do but fold your arms and stand a all night let her alone urged the man m she was only speaking to me let her alone too retorted mr him all over know she s my daughter u and don t you know that i won t have no on the part of my daughter no nor yet that i won t take no from no man and who may yon be and what may yo want how can i tell you until you are silent returned the other fiercely mutual well said mr a little i am willing to bo silent for the purpose of hearing but don t me are you thirsty you the man asked in the same fierce short way after returning his look why rally said mr ain t i always thirsty n indignant at the absurdity of the question what will you drink r demanded the man m wine returned mr in the same sharp tone if you re capable of it the man put his hand in his pocket took out half a sovereign and begged the favour of miss pleasant that she would fetch a bottle with the cork he added emphatically looking at her father take my alfred david muttered mr slowly into a dark smile that you know a move do i know you f n � n� no i don t know you the man replied no you don t know me and so they stood looking at one another enough until pleasant came back there s small glasses on the said to his daughter give me the one without a foot i gets my living by the sweat of my brow and it s good enough 