1. Postscript. — I did not tell you that Blandly, who, by the way, is to send a consort after us if we don't turn up by the end of August, had found an admirable fellow for sailing master — a stiff man, which I regret, but, in all other respects, treasure. Long John Silver unearthed a very competent man for a mate, a man named Arrow. I have a boatswain who pipes, Livesey; so things shall go man-o'-war fashion on board the good shipHispaniola.
2. 'I forgot to tell you that Silver is a man of substance; I know of my own knowledge that he has a banker's account, which has never been overdrawn. He leaves his wife to manage the inn; and as she is a woman of colour, a pair of old bachelors like you and I may be excused for guessing that it is the wife, quite as much as the health, that sends him back to roving.
3. 'J. T.
4. 'P.P.S. — Hawkins may stay one night with his mother.
5. 'J. T.
1. You can fancy the excitement into which that letter put me (можете представить себе волнение, в которое это письмо ввело меня = как взбудоражило меня письмо). I was half beside myself with glee (я был вне себя от восторга; half — почти; beside oneself — быть вне себя; glee — веселье, ликование); and if ever I despised a man, it was old Tom Redruth (и если я когда-либо и презирал кого-нибудь, так это Тома Редрута), who could do nothing but grumble and lament (который мог делать ничего, кроме = только и делал, что ворчал и скулил). Any of the under-gamekeepers would gladly have changed places with him (любой из младших егерей с радостью поменялся бы с ним местами); but such was not the squire's pleasure (но подобное не было волей сквайра), and the squire's pleasure was like law among them all (а воля сквайра была подобно закону посреди их всех = слуг). Nobody but old Redruth would have dared so much as even to grumble (никто, кроме старого Редрута, не посмел бы даже и ворчать).
2. The next morning he and I set out on foot for the 'Admiral Benbow' (на следующее утро он и я отправились пешком в «Адмирал Бенбоу»), and there I found my mother in good health and spirits (и там я нашел свою мать в полном здравии и в хорошем настроении). The captain, who had so long been a cause of so much discomfort (капитан, который так долго был причиной столь большого беспокойства), was gone where the wicked cease from troubling (ушел = умер, и с ним прекратились все неприятности: «ушел туда, где злодеи перестают причинять беспокойство»; wicked — злой, порочный; to cease from — перестать делать что-либо, бросить