If you ask me, I believe she thinks herself now able to lick the whole of Europe.

I am not at all sure, thanks to Busby and our last fifteen years' military administration, that she wouldn't have a good chance of doing it.

Any way, I am not going to have my fleet cut down." "The country is prosperous," Hebblethwaite acknowledged.

"We can afford the ships." "Then look here, old chap," Wyatt begged, "I am not pleading for my own sake, but the country's.

Keep your mouth shut.