Английский язык с Р.Л. Стивенсоном. Остров сокровищ

Франк Илья

leg has at last gone clean out of my life; but I daresay he met his old negress,

and perhaps still lives in comfort with her and Captain Flint. It is to be hoped

so, I suppose, for his chances of comfort in another world are very small.

2. The bar silver and the arms still lie, for all that I know, where Flint buried

them; and certainly they shall lie there for me. Oxen and wain-ropes would

not bring me back again to that accursed island; and the worst dreams that

ever I have are when I hear the surf booming about its coasts, or start upright

in bed, with the sharp voice of Captain Flint still ringing in my ears: 'Pieces of

eight! pieces of eight!'

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