This they were exceedingly glad to do: so that the honest shipman's good nature and politeness were vastly increased, and he waved his hook in so funny and so boyish a way it set them all a-laughing.
So it was arranged forthwith that he should be at a quiet point on the shore at a certain hour to row the governor and his friends to the Nell Gwynn.

And, this done, he was bade to go to the dining-room and refresh himself.
He obeyed with cheerfulness, and was taken in charge by Morris, who, having passed on Iberville and Gering to the drawing-room, was once more at his post, taciturn as ever.

The governor and his friends had gone straight to the drawing-room, so that Morris and he were alone.

Wine was set before the sailor and he took off a glass with gusto, his eye cocked humorously towards his host.

"No worse fate for a sinner," quoth he; "none better for a saint." Morris's temper was not amiable.