I know them better than you do, Wilton.

It isn't quite time yet; but in three or four days they will be ready for anything." "You can't bring them up to what you mean." "Yes, I can." "What do you expect to do, locked up in that place ?" demanded Wilton, incredulously.
"When I get ready to go out of this place, I shall go.

I needn't stay here any longer than I please." "Do you really mean to get up a mutiny ?" "Hush! Don't call it by that name." "What shall I call it ?" "Call it making a chain." "I don't understand you," answered Wilton, puzzled by the expression.
"I know what I'm about, and I have got more friends in the ship than Lowington has.

And I know exactly how to manage the whole thing," added Shuffles, confidently.
"But the fellows are all perfectly satisfied with their condition.

They wish to go to Europe, and are pleased with the prospect before them." "Perhaps they are; and they shall all go to Europe, and travel about without being tied to Lowington's coat-tails.