midnights
Just fancy . And I assure you I wonder very much that there are no more . '' `` What sort of hurts ? '' Then Marion told him all about the falling spars , the poisoned ulcers , the great festers , the poisoned hands caused by venomous fishes accidentally handled in the dark , wild midnights ; the salt-water cracks , the thousand and one physical injuries caused by falls , or the blow of the sea , or the prolonged fighting with heavy gales . The girl had become eloquent ; she had _ seen _ , and , as she was eloquent as women generally are , she was able to make the keen old man see exactly what she wanted him to see . Then she told how Ferrier stuck to the sinking smack and saved his patient , and Robert Cassall muttered , `` That sounds like a man 's doings ; '' and then with every modesty she spoke of Tom Betts 's mistake . There never was such a fluent , artful , mock-modest , dramatic puss in the world !