The captain's state cabin is a den by the side of our quarters; and ain't they jolly girls ?" "And pretty, too, I believe you; and the countess, too.

I call her a stunner!" he exclaimed enthusiastically; "as stately as a queen, but as friendly and kind as possible.

I don't think we ought to go to war with people like this." "Oh, nonsense!" Jack said.

"We've seen thousands of Russians now, and don't think much of them; and 'tisn't likely we're going to let Russia gobble up Turkey just because there's a nice countess with three jolly daughters living here." Dick laughed.
"No, I suppose not," he said.

"But, Jack, what on earth are we going to do about clothes?
These uniforms are getting seedy, though it is lucky that we had on our best when we were caught, owing to our having had the others torn to pieces the night of the wreck.