Not with all your gods about you, and in as snug a berth as this.

For it is a pretty snug berth,' said he, with a sweeping look.
'The spot, as you are good enough to indicate, is not entirely intolerable,' was the reply.
'Shell, I suppose ?' said Davis.
'Yes, there was shell,' said Attwater.
'This is a considerable big beast of a lagoon, sir,' said the captain.
'Was there a--was the fishing--would you call the fishing anyways GOOD ?' 'I don't know that I would call it anyways anything,' said Attwater, 'if you put it to me direct.' 'There were pearls too ?' said Davis.
'Pearls, too,' said Attwater.
'Well, I give out!' laughed Davis, and his laughter rang cracked like a false piece.

'If you're not going to tell, you're not going to tell, and there's an end to it.' 'There can be no reason why I should affect the least degree of secrecy about my island,' returned Attwater; 'that came wholly to an end with your arrival; and I am sure, at any rate, that gentlemen like you and Mr Whish, I should have always been charmed to make perfectly at home.

The point on which we are now differing--if you can call it a difference--is one of times and seasons.

I have some information which you think I might impart, and I think not.