noon
Adds bobs ! if we had this here fellow w -- eson for a consort , with all our tackle in order , brother , we 'd soon show ` em the topsail , slip our cable , and down with their barricadoes . But , howsomever , it do n't signify talking -- patience is a good stream-anchor , and will hold , as the saying is -- but , d -- n my -- as for the matter of my boltsprit . -- Harkye , harkye , brother , d -- ned hard to engage with three at a time , one upon my bow , one upon my quarter , and one right a-head , rubbing and drubbing , lying athwart hawse , raking fore and aft , battering and grappling , and lashing and clashing -- adds heart , brother ; crash went the bolt-sprit -- down came the round-top -- up with the deadlights -- I saw nothing but the stars at noon , lost the helm of my seven senses , and down I broached upon my broadside . '' As Mr. Clarke rightly conceived that his uncle would need an interpreter , he began to explain these hints , by giving a circumstantial detail of his own and the captain 's disaster . He told Sir Launcelot , that , notwithstanding all his persuasion and remonstrances , Captain Crowe insisted upon appearing in the character of a knight errant ; and , with that view , had set out from the public-house on the morning that succeeded his vigil in the church . That upon the highway they had met with a coach , containing two ladies , one of whom seemed to be under great agitation ; for , as they passed , she struggled with the other , thrust out her head at the window , and said something which he could not distinctly hear .