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Some of the "dramatis personæ" introduced—Retrospective glances—Causes of future effects—Our hero's early life at sea—A pirate—A terrible fight and its consequences—Buzzby's helm lashed1 amidships—A whaling-cruise begun.
Nobody ever caught John Buzzby asleep by any chance whatever. No weasel was ever half so sensitive on that point as he was. Wherever he happened to be (and in the course of his adventurous2 life he had been to nearly all parts of the known world) he was the first awake in the morning and the last asleep at night; he always answered promptly3 to the first call; and was never known by any man living to have been seen with his eyes shut, except when he winked4, and that operation he performed less frequently than other men.
John Buzzby was an old salt—a regular true-blue Jack5 tar6 of the old school, who had been born and bred at sea; had visited foreign ports innumerable; had weathered more storms than he could count, and had witnessed more strange sights than he could remember. He was tough, and sturdy, and grizzled, and broad, and square, and massive—a first-rate specimen8 of a John Bull, and according to himself, "always kept his weather-eye open." This remark of his was apt to create confusion in the minds of his hearers; for John meant the expression to be understood figuratively, while, in point of fact, he almost always kept one of his literal eyes open and the other partially10 closed, but as he reversed the order of arrangement frequently, he might have been said to keep his lee-eye as much open as the weather one. This peculiarity11 gave to his
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momentary
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musket
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defiance
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antagonist
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使人畏缩的,使人害羞的,使人难堪的 | |
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