Back chat from John Silver:

I be begging your pardon, Barrister Eke, but I be mighty perplexed by the tone of your correspondence to me good self. It bears an unwarranted hint of the wiffy end of a high horse, it does.

I can be telling ye that I have yet to be hearing from the Gentlemen of Holland and I be getting just a trifle weary of all the delays.

Please request that the said gentlemen extract their digit from its warm but dank resting place and get a move on.

Yours as always,

John Silver.