If we find the lugger embayed, we'll have her as sure as fate." "Very prettily conceived, Captain Cuffe; and in a way to be handsomely executed.

But if we should happen to find the heathen outside of us ?" "Then make sail in chase to seaward, each ship acting for the best.
Come, gentlemen, I do not wish to be inhospitable, but the Proserpine must be off.

She has a long road before her; and the winds of this season of the year can barely be counted on for an hour at a time." Cuffe being in such a hurry, his guests departed without further ceremony.

As for Sir Frederick, the first thing he did was to order dinner an hour earlier than he had intended, and then to invite his surgeon and marine-officer, two capital pairs of knives and forks, to come and share it with him, after which he sat down to play somewhat villanously on a flute.

Two hours later he gave the necessary orders to his first lieutenant; after which he troubled himself very little about the frigate he commanded.