And here are the records of my service.

I don't, you understand, want to push another man from his billet; but if you should chance to have a berth open, I should be very glad of it.

I know the navigation from the Cod Banks right up to Montreal a great deal better than I know the streets of London." The astonished manager glanced over the blue papers which his visitor had handed him.

"Won't you take a chair, Admiral ?" said he.
"Thank you! But I should be obliged if you would drop my title now.

I told you because you asked me, but I've left the quarter-deck, and I am plain Mr.Hay Denver now." "May I ask," said the manager, "are you the same Denver who commanded at one time on the North American station ?" "I did." "Then it was you who got one of our boats, the Comus, off the rocks in the Bay of Fundy?
The directors voted you three hundred guineas as salvage, and you refused them." "It was an offer which should not have been made," said the Admiral sternly.
"Well, it reflects credit upon you that you should think so.