I tell you, Mr.
Sheldon, she's a wonder, that girl, a perfect wonder." Munster refilled his glass, and while Sheldon glanced across at Joan's house, anxious for her coming, Sparrowhawk took up the tale.
"Gritty! She's the grittiest thing, man or woman, that ever blew into the Solomons.

You should have seen Poonga-Poonga the morning we arrived--Sniders popping on the beach and in the mangroves, war-drums booming in the bush, and signal-smokes raising everywhere.

'It's all up,' says Captain Munster." "Yes, that's what I said," declared that mariner.
"Of course it was all up.

You could see it with half an eye and hear it with one ear." "'Up your granny,' she says to him," Sparrowhawk went on.

"'Why, we haven't arrived yet, much less got started.