`` They would have died for me like dogs . '' `` Well , sir , '' said the captain , still watching him , `` there are more men in the world than boats to put them in . '' `` And that 's true , too , '' cried the other , `` and ye seem to be a gentleman of great penetration . '' `` I have been in France , sir , '' says the captain , so that it was plain he meant more by the words than showed upon the face of them . `` Well , sir , '' says the other , `` and so has many a pretty man , for the matter of that . '' `` No doubt , sir , '' says the captain , `` and fine coats . '' `` Oho ! '' says the stranger , `` is that how the wind sets ? '' And he laid his hand quickly on his pistols . `` Do n't be hasty , '' said the captain . `` Do n't do a mischief before ye see the need of it . Ye 've a French soldier 's coat upon your back and a Scotch tongue in your head , to be sure ; but so has many an honest fellow in these days , and I dare say none the worse of it . '' `` So ? '' said the gentleman in the fine coat : `` are ye of the honest party ? '' -LRB- meaning , Was he a Jacobite ? for each side , in these sort of civil broils , takes the name of honesty for its own -RRB- . `` Why , sir , '' replied the captain , `` I am a true-blue Protestant , and I thank God for it . '' -LRB- It was the first word of any religion I had ever heard from him , but I learnt afterwards he was a great church-goer while on shore . -RRB- `` But , for all that , '' says he , `` I can be sorry to see another man with his back to the wall . '' `` Can ye so , indeed ? ''
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