On the other side of the cabin-bulkheads Mr Atkins said to Mr Stanhope, ‘High words between the Captain and the Doctor, sir. Hoo, hoo! Pretty strong – he pitches it pretty strong: I wonder a man of spirit can stomach it. I should give him a thrashing directly.’ Mr Stanhope had no notion of listening behind bulk-heads, and he did not reply; but he could not prevent himself from catching isolated sentiments, such as ‘ . . . tes moeurs crapuleuses . . . tu cherches à corrompre mon paresseux . . . va donc, eh, salope . . . espèce de fripouille’, for the dialogue had switched to French on the
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