`` Avast there ! '' cried Mr. Smollett . `` Gray told me nothing , and I asked him nothing ; and what 's more , I would see you and him and this whole island blown clean out of the water into blazes first . So there 's my mind for you , my man , on that . '' This little whiff of temper seemed to cool Silver down . He had been growing nettled before , but now he pulled himself together . `` Like enough , '' said he . `` I would set no limits to what gentlemen might consider shipshape , or might not , as the case were . And seein ' as how you are about to take a pipe , cap'n , I 'll make so free as do likewise . '' And he filled a pipe and lighted it ; and the two men sat silently smoking for quite a while , now looking each other in the face , now stopping their tobacco , now leaning forward to spit . It was as good as the play to see them . `` Now , '' resumed Silver , `` here it is . You give us the chart to get the treasure by , and drop shooting poor seamen and stoving of their heads in while asleep . You do that , and we 'll offer you a choice . Either you come aboard along of us , once the treasure shipped , and then I 'll give you my affy-davy , upon my word of honour , to clap you somewhere safe ashore . Or if that ai n't to your fancy , some of my hands being rough and having old scores on account of hazing , then you can stay here , you can . We 'll divide stores with you , man for man ; and I 'll give my affy-davy , as before to speak the first ship I sight , and send 'em here to pick you up . Now , you 'll own that 's talking . Handsomer you could n't look to get , now you . And I hope '' -- raising his voice -- `` that all hands in this here block house will overhaul my words , for what is spoke to one is spoke to all . ''
Captain XXXXX rose from his seat and knocked out the ashes of his pipe in the palm of his left hand .
Avast Smollett first hazing house seein smoking stores stoving tobacco