He made it a small affair to find some good plain family of merchants, where Catriona might harbour till the _Rose_ was loaden; declared he would then blithely carry her back to Leith for nothing and see her safe in the hands of Mr.Gregory; and in the meanwhile carried us to a late ordinary for the meal we stood in need of.

He seemed extremely friendly, as I say, but what surprised me a good deal, rather boisterous in the bargain; and the cause of this was soon to appear.

For at the ordinary, calling for Rhenish wine and drinking of it deep, he soon became unutterably tipsy.

In, this case, as too common with all men, but especially with those of his rough trade, what little sense or manners he possessed deserted him; and he behaved himself so scandalous to the young lady, jesting most ill-favoredly at the figure she had made on the ship's rail, that I had no resource but carry her suddenly away.
She came out of that ordinary clinging to me close.

"Take me away, David," she said.