"Nobody understands Richard Wardour.

I am not talking at random.

Remember, I sailed from England with him in the _Wanderer_; and I was only transferred to the _Sea-mew_ long after we were locked up in the ice.

I was Richard Wardour's companion on board ship for months, and I learned there to do him justice.

Under all his outward defects, I tell you, there beats a great and generous heart.