"Had you honoured me with a single glance during dinner, you could not but have observed that I have been dining very heartily." "I really am quite shocked, Miss Charlotte, and bow to your reproof.

Will you take a glass of wine with me, in reconciliation ?" "I consider a glass of Madeira a very poor bribe, sir." "Well, then, Miss Charlotte, it shall be champagne," replied Captain Drawlock, in his gallantry.

"Steward, champagne." A fortunate hit for the company; as champagne was in general only produced upon what sailors call "clean shirt days,"-- viz., Sundays and Thursdays.
"We are highly indebted to Miss Revel," observed the colonel, bowing to her; "and I think we ought to drink her health in a bumper." Agreed to, _nem.

con._ Champagne, thou darling of my heart! To stupefy oneself with other wines, is brutal; but to raise oneself to the seventh heaven with thee, is quite ethereal.

The soul appears to spurn the body, and take a transient flight without its dull associate--the--the--broke down, by Jupiter! All I meant to say was, that champagne is very pretty _tipple_; and so thought the dinner party, who were proportionally enlivened.
"Is this orthodox, Mr Ferguson ?" inquired the colonel, holding up his glass.
"So far orthodox, that it is very good; and what is orthodox is good," replied the divine, with good-humour.
"The _Asia_ has made the signal for 'a strange sail--suspicious,'" said the second mate to Captain Drawlock, putting his head into the cabin.
"Very well, Mr Jones, keep a glass upon the commodore." "Mrs Ferguson, will you take some of this tart! Damascene, I believe," said the first mate.
"If you please, Mr Mathews .-- Did not Mr Jones say 'suspicious ?'--What does that imply ?" "Imply, madam; why, that he don't like the cut of her jib!" "And pray what does that mean ?" "Mean, madam: why, that for all he knows to the contrary, she may be a French frigate." "A French frigate! a French frigate! O dear! O dear!" cried two or three ladies at a breath.
"Mr Mathews," said Captain Drawlock, "I am really surprised at your indiscretion.