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_Ramgolam._ And bereft me of the excellences I was inheriting: and--
Here Sharpe interrupted the dialogue by putting the misappropriator of
other men's virtues in irons, and the surgeon insisted on the cabin being
cleared. But Dodd would not part with the three friends yet; he begged
them to watch him, and see nobody else came to take his children's
fortune.
"I'll sink or swim with it; but oh! I doubt we shall have no luck while
it is aboard me. I never had a pirate alongside before, in all these
years. What is this?--here's something in it now--something
hard--something heavy: and--why, it's a bullet!"
On this announcement, an eager inspection took place: and, sure enough, a
bullet had passed through Dodd's coat and waistcoat, &c., and through the
oilskin and the leather pocketbook, and just dented the "Hard Cash;" no
more.
There was a shower of comments and congratulations.
The effect of this discovery on the sick man's spirits was remarkable. "I
was a villain to belie it," said he. "It is my wife's and my children's,
and it has saved my life for them.


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