"What would you do if the ship went aground ?" "We should stay there, mon bon monsieur, until some one came to help us at the flood tide.

We should shout until they heard us." "You might fire a gun," suggested Barebone.
"We have no gun on board, mon bon monsieur," replied the Captain, who had long ago explained to his prisoner that there was no ill-feeling.
"It is the fortune of war," he had explained before the white cliffs of St.Valerie had faded from sight.

"I am a poor man who cannot afford to refuse a good offer.

It is a Government job, as you no doubt know without my telling you.

You would seem to have incurred the displeasure or the distrust of some one high placed in the Government.