there the similarity ended , however : `` i do n't see why i , '' agreuth said , his tongue tangling awkwardly , so he had to stop and repeat himself , speaking with excessive care , `` why i should listen to anything out of a piss-pot whoreson traitor 's fucking mouth - `` laurence stared , and heard the tirade with mounting incredulity ; he would have expected the gutter language out of a dockyard pickpocket in a temper , and hardly knew how to hear it from an officer .