D--n all veechys, and d--n all the governatorys, too; do speak English, Griffin, on board an English ship, if you please, even should your Italian happen to be Tuscan.

Call the fellow vice-governor at once, if that be his rank." "Well, sir, as soon as I had satisfied the vice-governor that the lugger was an enemy, and that we were friends, everything went: smoothly enough.

He wanted to sink the lugger as she lay at her anchor." "And why the devil didn't he do it?
Two or three heavy shot would have given her a stronger dose than she could bear." "You know, Captain Cuffe, it has all along been your wish to take her alive.

I thought it would tell so well for the ship to have it to say she had _caught_ le Feu-Follet, that I opposed the project.

I know Mr.
Winchester hopes to get her as a reward for carrying her, himself." "Aye, and that would make you first.