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1. There was no time left for him to answer in. The buccaneers, with oaths and cries, began to leap, one after another, into the pit, and to dig with their fingers, throwing the boards aside as they did so. Morgan found a piece of gold. He held it up with a perfect spout of oaths. It was a two-guinea piece, and it went from hand to hand among them for a quarter of a minute.
2. 'Two guineas! roared Merry, shaking it at Silver. 'That's your seven hundred thousand pounds, is it? You're the man for bargains, aint you? You're him that never bungled nothing, you wooden-headed lubber!
3. 'Dig away, boys, said Silver, with the coolest insolence; 'you'll find some pig-nuts and I shouldn't wonder.
1. 'Pig-nuts (земляных каштанов)! repeated Merry, in a scream (повторил Мерри, взвизгивая). 'Mates, do you hear that (ребята, вы слышите это)? I tell you, now, that man there knew it all along (говорю вам, что он знал все заранее;
2. 'Ah, Merry (эх, Мерри), remarked Silver (заметил Сильвер), 'standing for cap'n again (метишь снова в капитаны)? You're a pushing lad, to be sure (ты напористый малый, бес сомнений).
3. But this time everyone was entirely in Merry's favour (но на этот раз все были решительно на стороне Мерри;
4. Well, there we stood, two on one side (так мы стояли — двое на одной стороне), five on the other the pit between us (пятеро на другой стороне ямы между нами = разделявшей нас), and nobody screwed up high enough to offer the first blow (и никто не решался нанести первый удар;
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