"That last sentence was very pretty, and if I had not hold of your arm I should make you a courtesy." "No, please don't do that," Ralph said, coloring hotly.

"I didn't mean anything, you know." "Now, don't spoil it.

You meant I suppose, what was quite proper you should mean, that Captain O'Connor by introducing me to you had made up for his last delinquency." "Yes, that is what I did mean," Ralph agreed.
"Captain O'Connor tells me that you have been through all sorts of adventures, Mr.Conway--been carried off by a French privateer, and taken to a pirate island, and done all sorts of things." "The 'all sorts of things' did not amount to much, Miss Regan.

I made myself as useful as I could, and picked up French; and at last when the privateer sailed away I walked down to the shore and met our sailors when they landed.

There was, I can assure you, nothing in any way heroic about the part I had to play." "Still it was an adventure." "Oh! yes, it was that; and upon the whole I think I liked it, except when there was a chance of having a fight with our own people." "That would have been dreadful.