`` 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 ? '' asked the Jacobite . `` Well , sir , to be quite plain with ye , I am one of those honest gentlemen that were in trouble about the years forty-five and six ; and -LRB- to be still quite plain with ye -RRB- if I got into the hands of any of the red-coated gentry , it 's like it would go hard with me . Now , sir , I was for France ; and there was a French ship cruising here to pick me up ; but she gave us the go-by in the fog -- as I wish from the heart that ye had done yoursel ' ! And the best that I can say is this : If ye can set me ashore where I was going , I have that upon me will reward you highly for your trouble . '' `` In France ? '' says the captain . `` No , sir ; that I can not do . But where ye come from -- we might talk of that . '' And then , unhappily , he observed me standing in my corner , and packed me off to the galley to get supper for the gentleman . I lost no time , I promise you ; and when I came back into the round-house , I found the gentleman had taken a money-belt from about his waist , and poured out a guinea or two upon the table . The captain was looking at the guineas , and then at the belt , and then at the gentleman 's face ; and I thought he seemed excited . `` Half of it , '' he cried , `` and I 'm your man ! ''
The other swept back the XXXXX into the belt , and put it on again under his waistcoat .
French Jacobite Protestant broils church-goer first go-by guineas round-house years