I took my letter of introduction with me, although I was afraid it would be of little service.

When I arrived, I asked, with a trembling voice, whether Captain Thomas Kirkwall Savage, of H.M.ship _Diomede_, was staying there.

The waiter replied, that he was at breakfast with Captain Courtney, but that he would take up my name.

I gave it him, and in a minute the waiter returned, and desired that I would walk up.

O how my heart beat!--I never was so frightened--I thought I should have dropped on the stairs.