human
Your mind is made up, Gar'ner, said Daggett, in a deprecating sort of way, as if he still had latent hopes of persuading his brother-master to remain a little longer
gpt
Another week would almost fill us up.
human
Not another day, was the answer.
gpt
I have stayed too long already, and shall be off in the morning. If you will take my advice. Captain Daggett, you will do the same thing. Winter comes in this latitude very much as spring appears in our own; or with a hop, skip, and a jump. I have no fancy to be groping about among the ice, after the nights get to be longer than the days!
human
All true enough, Gar'ner; all quite true--but it has such a look to take a craft home, and she not full!
gpt
You have a great abundance of provisions; stop and whale awhile on the False Banks, as you go north. I would much rather stick by you there a whole month, than remain here another day.
human
You make me narvous, talking of the group in this way! I'm sartain that this bay must remain clear of ice several weeks longer.
gpt
Perhaps it may; it is more likely to be so than to freeze up. But this will not lengthen the days and carry us safe through the fields and bergs that we know are drifting about out here to the northward. There's a hundred leagues of ocean thereaway, Daggett, that I care for more just now, than for all the seal that are left on these islands. But, talking is useless; I go to-morrow; if you are wise, you will sail in company.
human
were the words that now cheerfully passed from mouth to mouth. That pleasant idea of
gpt
in which is concentrated all that is blessed in this life, the pale of the Christian duties and charities excepted, brings to each mind its particular forms of happiness and good. The weather-beaten seaman, the foot-worn soldier, the weary traveller, the adventurer in whatever lands interest or pleasure may lead, equally feels a throb at his heart as he hears the welcome sounds of