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-- Ten at night . -- Manuel has got him ! `` He has just left us , after staying here more than an hour , and talking the whole time of nothing but his own wonderful luck in finding the very help he wanted , at the time when he needed it most . `` At noon to-day he was on the Mole , it seems , with his interpreter , trying vainly to make himself understood by the vagabond population of the water-side . Just as he was giving it up in despair , a stranger standing by -LRB- Manuel had followed him , I suppose , to the Mole from his hotel -RRB- kindly interfered to put things right . He said , ` I speak your language and their language , sir . I know Naples well ; and I have been professionally accustomed to the sea .