Winchester he considerately declined questioning while his wound was being dressed; but Griffin was summoned to his cabin as soon as the boats were hoisted in and stowed.
"Well, Mr.Griffin, a d--d pretty scrape is this into which you have led me, among you, with your wish to go boating about after luggers and Raoul Yvards! What will the admiral say when he comes to hear of twenty-two men's being laid on the shelf, and a felucca to be paid for, as a morning's amusement ?" "Really, Captain Cuffe, we did our best; but a man might as well have attempted to put out Vesuvius with snowballs as to stand the canister of that infernal lugger! I don't think there was a square yard in the felucca that was not peppered.

The men never behaved better; and down to the moment when we last cheered I was as sure of le Feu-Follet as I ever was of my own promotion." "Aye, they needn't call her le Few-Folly any longer--the Great Folly being a better name.

What the devil did you cheer for at all, sir?
did you ever know a Frenchman cheer in your life?
That very cheering was the cause of your being found out before you had time to close.

You should have shouted _vive la republique,_ as all their craft do when we engage them.

A regular English hurrah would split a Frenchman's throat." "I believe we did make a mistake there, sir; but I never was in an action in which we did not cheer; and when it got to be warm--or to _seem_ warm--I forgot myself a little.