` Tai n't much use for fools , you may lay to it -- that , nor nothing , '' cried Silver . `` But now , you look here : you 're young , you are , but you 're as smart as paint . I see that when I set my eyes on you , and I 'll talk to you like a man . '' You may imagine how I felt when I heard this abominable old rogue addressing another in the very same words of flattery as he had used to myself . I think , if I had been able , that I would have killed him through the barrel . Meantime , he ran on , little supposing he was overheard . `` Here it is about gentlemen of fortune . They lives rough , and they risk swinging , but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks , and when a cruise is done , why , it 's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets . Now , the most goes for rum and a good fling , and to sea again in their shirts . But that 's not the course I lay . I puts it all away , some here , some there , and none too much anywheres , by reason of suspicion . I 'm fifty , mark you ; once back from this cruise , I set up gentleman in earnest . Time enough too , says you . Ah , but I 've lived easy in the meantime , never denied myself o ' nothing heart desires , and slep ' soft and ate dainty all my days but when at sea . And how did I begin ? Before the mast , like you ! '' `` Well , '' said the other , `` but all the other money 's gone now , ai n't it ? You dare n't show face in Bristol after this . '' `` Why , where might you suppose it was ? '' asked Silver derisively .
`` At XXXXX , in banks and places , '' answered his companion .
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