'AW' I DON'T KNOW YE, DO I?
GOD DAMN YE, DID GOD MAKE YE ?' No, that couldn't be nothing but genuine; a man got to be born to that, and notice! smart as champagne and hard as nails; no kind of a fool; no, SIR! not a pound of him! Well, what's he here upon this beastly island for?
I said.

HE'S not here collecting eggs.

He's a palace at home, and powdered flunkies; and if he don't stay there, you bet he knows the reason why! Follow ?' 'O yes, I 'ear you,' said Huish.
'He's been doing good business here, then,' continued the captain.

'For ten years, he's been doing a great business.

It's pearl and shell, of course; there couldn't be nothing else in such a place, and no doubt the shell goes off regularly by this Trinity Hall, and the money for it straight into the bank, so that's no use to us.