Coming back, though, the cargo was worth more than the insurance, I reckon.

You'd ha' been out o' pocket if we'd foundered.

It would ha' been a case o' the engineer hoisted on his own Peter, as Shakspere says." "We take our chance of these things," the merchant said with dignity.
"Well, good morning, guv'nor," Captain Hamilton Miggs said brusquely.
"When you wants me you can lay your hands on me at the old crib, the _Cock and Cowslip_, Rotherhithe." As he passed out through the office, Ezra rejoined his father.
"He's a curious chap," he remarked, jerking his head in the direction which Miggs had taken.

"I heard him bellowing like a bull, so I thought I had best listen to what he had to say.

He's a useful servant, though." "The fellow's half a savage himself," his father said.