Between Silver and myself we got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable -- not pretty to look at , but fellows , by their faces , of the most indomitable spirit . I declare we could fight a frigate . Long John even got rid of two out of the six or seven I had already engaged . He showed me in a moment that they were just the sort of fresh-water swabs we had to fear in an adventure of importance . I am in the most magnificent health and spirits , eating like a bull , sleeping like a tree , yet I shall not enjoy a moment till I hear my old tarpaulins tramping round the capstan . Seaward , ho ! Hang the treasure ! It 's the glory of the sea that has turned my head . So now , Livesey , come post ; do not lose an hour , if you respect me . Let young Hawkins go at once to see his mother , with Redruth for a guard ; and then both come full speed to Bristol . John Trelawney Postscript -- I did not tell you that Blandly , who , by the way , is to send a consort after us if we do n't turn up by the end of August , had found an admirable fellow for sailing master -- a stiff man , which I regret , but in all other respects a treasure . Long John Silver unearthed a very competent man for a mate , a man named Arrow . I have a boatswain who pipes , Livesey ; so things shall go man-o ' - war fashion on board the good ship HISPANIOLA . I forgot to tell you that Silver is a man of substance ; I know of my own knowledge that he has a banker 's account , which has never been overdrawn . He leaves his wife to manage the inn ; and as she is a woman of colour , a pair of old bachelors like you and I may be excused for guessing that it is the wife , quite as much as the health , that sends him back to roving . J. T. P.P.S. -- Hawkins may stay one night with his mother . J. T . You can fancy the excitement into which that letter put me . I was half beside myself with glee ; and if ever I despised a man , it was old Tom Redruth , who could do nothing but grumble and lament . Any of the under-gamekeepers would gladly have changed places with him ; but such was not the squire 's pleasure , and the squire 's pleasure was like law among them all .
Nobody but old XXXXX would have dared so much as even to grumble .
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