Mr.Hazel, sir, I'd come to my last anchor in that well this moment, if my duty to m' employers required it.

D-- my eyes if I wouldn't lie down there this minute, and never move to all eternity and a day after, if it was my duty to m' employers!" "No doubt," said Hazel dryly.

"But I think you can serve your employers better in other parts of the ship." He then left him, with a piece of advice; "to keep his eye upon that Wylie." Mr.Hazel kept his own eye on Wylie so constantly, that at eleven o'clock P.M.he saw that worthy go into the captain's cabin with a quart bottle of rum.
The coast was clear; the temptation great.

These men then were still deceiving him with a feigned antagonism.

He listened at the keyhole, not without some compunction; which, however, became less and less as fragments of the dialogue reached his ear.
For a long time the only speaker was Hudson, and his discourse ran upon his own exploits at sea.