The bagpipes will play quite loud enough over them to last for some time." "I know it, but tremble not," replied the undaunted Secretary; "I have got used to it.

I fancy I hear Callaghan beginning now: 'The unbridled prodigality, sir, and the reckless profligacy, sir, of those individuals who have so long, under the name of government----'" "That'll do, now," said the Captain; "you are worse than the reality.

I shall go ashore, and take my chance of getting breakfast.

Will you come ?" "Not if I know it, sir, with pork chops for breakfast in the cabin.
Blockstrop, have you duly reflected what you are about to do?
You are about to land alone, unarmed, unprovisioned, among the offscourings of white society, scarcely superior in their habits of life to the nomadic savages they have unjustly displaced.

Pause and reflect, my dear fellow.