'
'Thank'ee kindly, I am sure,' said the Captain, listening with
great attention.
'I have no hesitation in saying, that's the fact. You have hit the
probabilities exactly.'
'And with regard to your head Governor,' said the Captain, 'why an
interview had better come about nat'ral between us. There's time
enough.'
Mr Carker, with his mouth from ear to ear, repeated, 'Time enough.'
Not articulating the words, but bowing his head affably, and forming
them with his tongue and lips.
'And as I know - it's what I always said- that Wal'r's in a way to
make his fortune,' said the Captain.
'To make his fortune,' Mr Carker repeated, in the same dumb manner.
'And as Wal'r's going on this little voyage is, as I may say, in
his day's work, and a part of his general expectations here,' said the
Captain.
'Of his general expectations here,' assented Mr Carker, dumbly as
before.
'Why, so long as I know that,' pursued the Captain, 'there's no
hurry, and my mind's at ease.
Mr Carker still blandly assenting in the same voiceless manner,
Captain Cuttle was strongly confirmed in his opinion that he was one
of the most agreeable men he had ever met, and that even Mr Dombey
might improve himself on such a model. With great heartiness,
therefore, the Captain once again extended his enormous hand (not
unlike an old block in colour), and gave him a grip that left upon his
smoother flesh a proof impression of the chinks and crevices with
which the Captain's palm was liberally tattooed.
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