I don't know, though.

We sailors haven't got much time to look about us to any purpose.

Anyhow, as the old lady was there I haven't, I may say, looked at a girl in all my life.

Not that I wasn't partial to female society in my time," he added with a pathetic intonation, while the whites of his goggle eyes gleamed amorously under the clear night sky.

"Very partial, I may say." Mr.Powell was amused; and as these communications took place only when the mate was relieved off duty he had no serious objection to them.