"Better to take one of your own nation and opinions, Raoul, than risk your happiness with a stranger, who might not answer all your hopes when you came to know her better." "We will not talk further of this now, dearest Ghita; my first care must be to carry you back to the cottage of your aunt--unless indeed you will at once embark in le Feu-Follet and return to the towers ?" "Le Feu-Follet!--she is hardly here, in the midst of a fleet of her enemies!--Remember, Raoul, your men will begin to complain if you place them too often in such risks to gratify your own wishes." "_Peste!_--I keep them in good humor by rich prizes.

They have been successful; and that which makes yonder Nelson popular and a great man makes Raoul Yvard popular and a great man also in his little way.

My crew is like its captain--it loves adventures and it loves success." "I do not see the lugger--among a hundred ships, there is no sign of yours ?" "The Bay of Napoli is large, Ghita," returned Raoul, laughing; "and le Feu-Follet takes but little room.

See-yonder vaisseaux-de-ligne appear trifling among these noble mountains and on this wide gulf; you cannot expect my little lugger to make much show.

We are small, Ghita mia, if not insignificant!" "Still, where there are so many vigilant eyes, there is always danger, Raoul! Besides, a lugger is an unusual rig, as you have owned to me yourself." "Not here, among all these eastern craft.