It is your friends and your enemies that will give you trouble." "More especially my friends," suggested Loo, with a light laugh.
"Right again," answered Colville, glancing at him sideways beneath the brim of his hat.

And there was a little pause before he spoke again.
"You have probably learnt how to deal with your enemies at sea," he said thoughtfully at length.

"Have you ever noticed how an English ship comes into a foreign harbour and takes her berth at her moorings?
There is nothing more characteristic of the nation.

And one captain is like another.

No doubt you have seen Clubbe do it a hundred times.