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Chapter Thirty Three.
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The Last.
Many others as well as Maggot made money by the pilchards at that time. All round the coast of Cornwall millions of these little fish were taken, salted, and exported. No fewer than one thousand hogsheads were taken at St. Ives in the first three seine-nets cast into the sea. In Mounts Bay, Fowey Bay, Mevagissey, and other fishing grounds, immense quantities were caught, and the total catch of the county was little if at all short of thirty thousand hogsheads.
Among others, old Mr Donnithorne was so successful that his broken fortunes were almost re-established; and a small sum which our friend Oliver Trembath had ventured to invest in the fishing was more than quadrupled before the end of the year.
But this was not all. At the next Botallack account-dinner, Mr Cornish gladdened the hearts of the adventurers by telling them that the lodes which had been “promising2” for such a length of time had at last got the length of “performance,” and that he had now the pleasure of announcing a large dividend3, which he paid there and then.
A considerable share of this fell to old Mr Donnithorne, who, in the enthusiasm of the occasion, observed confidentially4 to Captain Dan that he was convinced “honesty was the best policy after all”—a sentiment which the captain heartily5 agreed with, although he failed to detect the precise connection between it and the old gentleman’s sudden influx6 of good fortune. But, then, the captain did not drink Botallack punch, while old Mr Donnithorne did, which may to some extent account for the difference in their powers of vision.
Captain Dan, however, possessed7 wonderful powers of vision in reference to the underground workings of Botallack, which were displayed to advantage—and to the great gratification of the shareholders8—when, at the request of Mr Cornish, he stood up and gave a
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confidentially
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prospects
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fathoms
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splice
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bankruptcy
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distress
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cove
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entirely
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dividends
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