human
Oh, Noll, Noll Trafford! not to know me! not to _guess_ that I was here! Why, you dear old fellow, ain't I better than letters? I've a good mind to never let you look around to pay for not mistrusting that I was here! Oh, Noll!
gpt
Well, I be beat! said the skipper.
human
I never seed a lad so dumbfounded afore. What ye goin' to give me fur bringin' ye sech a parcel, Master Noll?
gpt
Ned, Ned Thorn! he exclaimed, looking at his friend with wide-open eyes, as if he thought he was seeing a vision.
human
It is really you, only grown a little taller!
gpt
Of course it is; who else should it be? said Ned, drawing his friend out to one of the skipper's bales, where they could both sit down.
human
You're brown as an old salt, Noll; but you haven't grown a bit! Oh, but you may believe I'm glad to see you! I thought you'd be dying by this time to see some one from Hastings, and when the skipper pointed out the old stone dungeon where you live, I thought likely you were dead already. What a horrid old fortress 'tis! and weren't you awful homesick? and aren't you terribly moped up in such quarters? and, you dear old Noll, how _have_ you managed to live it through, anyhow?
gpt
Beats everything at questions, that lad does, observed Mr. Snape to the skipper;
human
They ben't glad to see each other, eh, Jack? said Ben;
gpt
I sh'u'd be 'feared the 'Gull''d founder,