What I want to show you is that very point, and the importance of it.

With a battery of long twenty-fours up here, the landing, the bay, and all the roads are at our mercy.

My dear old friend Nelson drew my attention to it." "It is plain as a pikestaff to Tom, Dick, or Harry:" Captain Stubbard was a frank, straightforward man, and much as he owed to the Admiral's aid, not a farthing would he pay in flattery.

"But why should we want to command this spot?
There is nothing to protect but a few common houses, and some half-score of fishing-craft, and a schooner that trades to London, and yonder old church, and--oh yes, to be sure, your own house and property, Admiral." "Those must take their chance, like others.

I hope I know better than to think of them in comparison with the good of the country.