1 Mr. Dance could make nothing of the scene.
2 And that," said he, "is just about as good as nothing.
3 "This is nothing," he said as soon as he had closed the door.
4 "'Tain't much use for fools, you may lay to it--that, nor nothing," cried Silver.
5 Now, Mrs. Hawkins, just you run upstairs to your husband and tell him, if possible, nothing about it.
6 The isle was uninhabited; my shipmates I had left behind, and nothing lived in front of me but dumb brutes and fowls.
7 In the meantime, we had found nothing of any value but the silver and the trinkets, and neither of these were in our way.
8 I was half beside myself with glee; and if ever I despised a man, it was old Tom Redruth, who could do nothing but grumble and lament.
9 I remember the appearance of his coat, which he patched himself upstairs in his room, and which, before the end, was nothing but patches.
10 A strong smell of tobacco and tar rose from the interior, but nothing was to be seen on the top except a suit of very good clothes, carefully brushed and folded.
11 The two gentlemen regretted that Black Dog had got away, but we all agreed there was nothing to be done, and after he had been complimented, Long John took up his crutch and departed.
12 Watch him as we pleased, we could do nothing to solve it; and when we asked him to his face, he would only laugh if he were drunk, and if he were sober deny solemnly that he ever tasted anything but water.
13 Sometimes the isle was thick with savages, with whom we fought, sometimes full of dangerous animals that hunted us, but in all my fancies nothing occurred to me so strange and tragic as our actual adventures.
14 For a long time, though I certainly did my best to listen, I could hear nothing but a low gattling; but at last the voices began to grow higher, and I could pick up a word or two, mostly oaths, from the captain.
15 From the ship we could see nothing of the house or stockade, for they were quite buried among trees; and if it had not been for the chart on the companion, we might have been the first that had ever anchored there since the island arose out of the seas.
16 Nothing followed for a time, but the remark had set us all on the alert, straining ears and eyes--the musketeers with their pieces balanced in their hands, the captain out in the middle of the block house with his mouth very tight and a frown on his face.
17 I went back with him to the Admiral Benbow, and you cannot imagine a house in such a state of smash; the very clock had been thrown down by these fellows in their furious hunt after my mother and myself; and though nothing had actually been taken away except the captain's money-bag and a little silver from the till, I could see at once that we were ruined.
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