learned to let him be. Every day when he came back
            from his stroll he would ask if any seafaring men had gone by along the
            road. At first we thought it was the want of company of his own kind
            that made him ask this question, but at last we began to see he was
            desirous to avoid them. When a seaman did put up at the Admiral Benbow
            (as now and then some did, making by the coast road for Bristol) he
            would look in at him through the curtaine