Joseph mumbledmumbleindistinctly in the depths of the cellar , but gave no intimation of ascending ; so his master diveddivedown to him , leavingleaveme _ vis-a-vis _ the ruffianly bitch and a pair of grim shaggy sheep-dogs , who shared with her a jealous guardianshipguardianshipover all my movementsmovement.
He gotgeta good estate by merchandise , and leavingleaveoff his trade , lived afterwards at York , from whence he had marriedmarrymy mother , whose relations were named Robinson , a very good family in that country , and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer ; but , by the usual corruption of words in England , we are now called — nay we call ourselves and write our name — Crusoe ; and so my companions always called me .
But being one day at Hull , where I wentgocasually , and without any purpose of making an elopement at that time ; but , I say , being there , and one of my companions being about to sail to London in his father ’s ship , and promptingpromptme to go with them with the common allurement of seafaring men , that it should cost me nothing for my passage , I consulted neither father nor mother any more , nor so much as sent them word of it ; but leavingleavethem to hear of it as they might , without asking God ’s blessing or my father ’s , without any consideration of circumstances or consequences , and in an ill hour , God knows , on the 1st of September 1651 , I wentgoon board a ship bound for London .
I began now seriously to reflectreflectupon what I had done , and how justly I was overtaken by the judgment of Heaven for my wicked leavingleavemy father ’s house , and abandoningabandonmy duty .